On Monday, December 20, 2004, at 09:57AM, G-List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Contrary to what some might tell you, G3s can boot from Firewire >> drives...via XPostFacto. XPF will also permit beige G3s to work around >> the 8G partition limit for OS X installations. I ran a beige G3 for a >> long time with my main 10.2.x system on a Firewire drive. Worked like >> a charm. > >That uses the built-in drive as a 'helper' to get the boot process >going, IIRC, which means that if that drive is hosed, no booting from >firewire. That wouldn't be an issue for me, as so far I haven't had any issues with the SCSI drive in it that runs OS 9, it's not the main drive but the backup, so in theory I could install it on that, which probably wouldn't be the drive that goes down, if one does. However, XPostFacto won't run on a B&W, I tried. :-( >> I have a B&W running 10.2.8 and would like to upgrade it to 10.3.6. >> What is the most trouble-free (easiest) way to do this without losing >> all the preferences and iTunes songs? > >There is an 'Archive & Re-install' option when you do the 10.3 install >(it's there with 10.2 as well.) This gives you an entirely new System >but preserves your user folders, preferences, etc. > >This is definitely the best way to go about it. there's also an >'Update' option which updates the OS in place, but I've heard of many >pore problems with that way than A&R. I used the "Update" option updating my laptop to Panther, but it seems like that just *might* have caused a bit of system slowness - not being able to boot from FireWire, I bit the bullet and moved some stuff around and did a fresh install of Panther on the partition on my secondary IDE drive that doesn't yet have an OS on it, and it seems to work a bit faster. However, that's probably a lot more likely to be due to the fact that this machine, while only being a G3 with the stock video card, has 768MB of RAM in it, compared to my laptop with 256 (G3 runs at 850mhz, G4 laptop at 867 - original 12" G4 Powerbook), and I did a custom install trying to save disk space (I only wanted to test the OS out to see exactly how slow it was on this machine, which is why I wanted to do it on the FireWire drive that already had it...) so it only installed about 1.7GB of stuff. A friend (who's more of a PC/Linux user) told me that because of the video card in this compared to the other machine, installing Panther on this would make it almost unusable...currently, it's faster than my Jaguar install, and I'm actually using it, not just testing it out! -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
