Thanks for posting this, Ralph. I seem to be resubscribed now after a multi-year hiatus.
For the record I actually didn't supply photos, but wrote the 2400 takeapart step-by-step guide. I'll do the same I think for the X on 2400, but you can probably figure it out by wading through this long piece. I'll try to take some pictures of the install for Mac2400. Ivan. ---------------- >(Part 1...Due to Size) > >Ivan Drucker provided photos of his disassembled 2400 to mac2400 back >in the early years. The attached reflects his latest exploits in >getting OSX to run on the 2400...a 603e at that. > >I'll try and get this on mac2400 over the weekend, and Ivan has even >suggested he might do a step-by-step, but in the meantime he agreed >that I could post this to the DuoList. He isn't currently a >subscriber....but we're working on it. ;-) > >>Subject: X on a 2400 -- it's true >>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:32:57 -0400 >>From: Ivan Drucker >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Hi Ash and Ralph, >> >>I know there's not much news on the venerable Mac2400 site, but I wanted >>to share with you some exciting news! I have succesfully turned my 2400 >>into a Mac OS X machine. Unfortunately, its G3/320 card died (on >>September 11 in downtown Manhattan, mysteriously enough), so I'm on the >>603ev/180, which is, I'm finding, too slow for everyday use. However, it >>makes an excellent server! >> >>I had three goals. The first was installing OS X; the second was finding >>some kind of networking that would work for me; the third was figuring >>out external storage support, since I wanted a large file server. >> >>First, phase one: installation. Being able to run OS X is provided by >>free software called XPostFacto, which is available from Other World >>Computing and which can be found at >>http://eshop.macsales.com/osxcenter/xpostfacto. However, I paid the $10 >>support fee, which has been more than worth it, as the author has been >>very helpful and I think the project should be supported. XPF (as it is >>abbreviated to) will allow you to run the Mac OS X software and installer >>on PowerSurge-family machines and their descendants, meaning 7300-9600 >>desktops and the 2400, 3400 and original PowerBook G3. It's very >>impressive. >> >>First, I partitioned my 20GB drive with Drive Setup to have an X >>partition (which, like the beige G3 desktop and Wall Street, must reside >>in the first 8GB of the drive), a 9 partition, and a large empty >>partition. I then installed 9 as usual, added my wireless (and wired) >>networking extensions, and downloaded XPF. I then just ran XPF, put my OS >>X CD in the CD-ROM drive, and watched my 2400 begin to boot into X! >> >>However, I didn't get very far. While I was able to start the OS X >>installer CD, the CD was in an older SCSI CD-ROM drive which was >>unrecognized by the Mac OS X driver (even though it had been patched to >>support more drives as part of XPF). So it would boot the installer CD up >>to a certain point, and then hang. I tried other methods, such as >>dittoing (see http://www.bombich.com) the CD to my hard drive and >>installing from that, but the 2400 would have none of it. I also tried to >>make an XPF boot CD, but that didn't work either. >> >>Finally I took the drive out of my 2400 (never a fun process) and put it >>in a FireWire enclosure, and did a vanilla OS X install onto it from my >>iBook. Then I put it back in my 2400, and booted from the 9 partition, >>and ran XPF, which fortunately will install its extensions onto an OS X >>installation even after it's been installed. Success! I can't tell you >>how exciting it was to see the deep blue startup screen with the strobing >>progress bar and lovely drop shadows. I almost couldn't grasp it. It >>matched my blue Yu-Plan keyboard! >> >>I set up my computer to boot into Open Firmware by default (XPF makes >>this easy, it's just a menu item to select), and that effectively gave me >>a boot-switcher: "boot" for X, "bye" for 9. >> >>Now it was time for Phase II. In this day and age, a computer that isn't >>on the net isn't a computer at all. Practically every Mac ever produced >>has an Ethernet port, which Mac OS X supports...but not the 2400, of >>course. And because practically every Mac ever produced has Ethernet, it >>means that almost no manufacturer that I have found has OS X drivers >>available for their Ethernet PC cards; at any rate, Farallon/Proxim >>certainly don't for their EtherMac 10Base-T card, which is what I have. I >>was prepared to buy another if I could find one that was supported, but >>from who? >> >>I thought I'd try to end run around the problem by using 802.11b with my >>Farallon/Proxim SkyLine 11Mbps card. I knew that there was an open-source >>driver available for a lot of wireless cards >>(http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net) and that I had seen it used >>successfully with my very card on a Pismo. Unfortunately, it caused a >>kernel panic at startup, which was confirmed by another 2400 user on the >>XPF forum. I looked around for other manufacturers with OS X support for >>their wireless cards, but the couple that I've found use drivers that are >>based on the same source, so I felt sure I'd get the same result. >> >>Oh well, back to Ethernet, which is what I really wanted to use anyway. >>Supposedly X has built-in support for cards which use the DEC Tulip >>chipset. Unfortunately, even though it's a common chipset, it's not >>always obvious or easy to figure out what chipset is being used in a >>given card without buying it first (and sometimes not even then). The >>strongest candidate that I found was the MPC200 from MacSense, which >>apparently works in X without installing drivers, according to the >>manufacturer's web site. There were two problems with this. One was that >>the card was Cardbus (32-bit), and I hadn't Cardbus-enabled my machine; >>the other was that it was $100, which I didn't want to spend, and more >>importantly it wasn't at my local CompUSA, and I wanted to get it working >>that day! (In retrospect, I might have been able to find the MacSense >>card if I had called the Mac shops around town...but who knows.) >> >>I also realized that I'd have to Cardbus-enable my 2400, if not for >>Ethernet, then certainly for FireWire, as their ain't no such thing as a >>16-bit FireWire card. I would have had MCE do it, but I didn't want to >>wait! And thanks to the info and links on Mac2400, I learned which >>resistors needed to be broken off...I took a deep breath and did it. I >>figured a lot could go wrong here. I had no idea if I was doing the right >>thing, the right way. And I had no idea if XPF and/or OS X could support >>a hacked 2400! >> >>A long time ago, I bought a PCAlly USB card which never worked for me; I >>was hoping it work on my unmodified 2400, as another Mac2400 reader found >>it did for his. I dug it out, and inserted it... and presto, I was using >>an Apple Pro Mouse with OS X! No drivers, no muss, no fuss, it just >>worked. I was amazed. >> >>But, again, which Ethernet card? I did some research and it appeared to >>me that the MPC200 was identical to the PCMPC200 sold by Linksys. It was >>$60, which was more palatable, and they had it at CompUSA. I bou and >>excitedly put it in...nothing. I don't know whether it is a problem with >>X, with XPF, with the 2400, or in fact whether the cards are in fact >>identical at all. I just know that it didn't work and that I was bummed. > > >See Part 2.... > >Ralph Mawyer, Jr. >San Antonio, Texas > >Associate Editor >mac2400 ... http://www.sineware.com/mac2400 >Your PowerBook 2400 Reference Site >"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1759. > >---------- >Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! >A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. >FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> >Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> > >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Need help from a real person? 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