Hey there,
I think its fair to say that I went into this process of installing mac
os X, which I've had nothing but problems with in the past, in a positive
mind set. But after installing it on my laptop, I have officially lost faith
in Apple's ability to make a functional operating system (its just gone down
hill from os 8...) This is my last hope- that you guys can help me- and I'm
willing to bet that you can ( =
This is what I am working on:
A 333 bronze powerbook,
4.5gig hd
320mb ram
24x CD
no additional cards, no airport
I installed mac os 9.2.1 and X.04 first. Well, sort of. it took freezing
twice before I got it on my hard drive. Then, I upgraded to 10.1. This time,
I got the most non-mac-like error of my life: at the end of the install, a
few lines of dos style text dropped over the pristine interface, reading
roughly that something 'failed, operations halted, panic, awaiting remote
debugger.' I dont think that this is a kernel panic, as I thought it was a
bit more graphic than some text. Nonetheless, it froze. I restarted and began
to install again. This time it worked just fine, and I was greeted with a new
mac os X desktop. I really like the look and feel of X, and people keep
telling me that jag is the way to go, and it really speeds things up.
So then came the next part- jag.
I inserted CD 1, checked for firmware updates, of which there were none, and
proceeded to install. Wow, what a cool start up! I love the apple and
spinning line design! truly simple and elegant. Well, mid install, it froze
and I got to see the start up again as i went to install a second time. woo
hoo! This time it worked like a charm, getting through both CDs and to the
desktop. Very cool, I have to admit that it IS much more responsive. I
clicked on sherlock to see what apple did that was new in 3, and it said it
needed an internet connection. I was a bit confused, so I hit apple-f and was
rewarded by a system 7.6-esque find function- I was very happy to see that,
as I wasn't really crazy about sherlock to begin with. I went back to
sherlock- and the computer froze. I restarted, then went into system control
panels to change my clock style- and it froze. I restarted, and this time it
lasted more than 30 seconds, nearly 4 minutes. That ended once I clicked on
the apple menu. Froze again.
I dont get it. What am I missing? is there some sort of 'dont freeze
randomly' option I have to find in the control panel? I think there should
be. Also important to note, I formatted the hd before starting this whole X
fiasco, even taking the time to zero all data. Aside from my complaint that
it should NOT take an assembly language programer's level of computer
expertise to get an operating system on a clean computer, it obviously does
and I sadly lack that expertise. I can write "hello world."
I need to use this computer for classes soon and would *like* to use 10.2
because it actually can sleep and wake up, unlike 9.2. I would appreciate any
help- I'm just really stressed out over this.
Thanks guys, I owe you a million!
-Dylan
ps- meanwhile i will d/l 10.2.1 update and see if that helps.
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