Not to be alarmist, but it is also a good idea to understand that you may encounter a balky upgrade and end up having to reinstall Jaguar; possibly from scratch. Some folks have no problems, but I did. I tried removing RAM, PCI cards, G4 zif; all to no avail. My wife now has the beige G(4) with Jaguar, and I now have a Sawtooth with Panther. Back up first, and good luck.
On Apr 3, 2005, at 7:42 AM, GDB-B&W-X.3.8 wrote:
On Apr 3, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Gregory S. Aldrich wrote:
Hello,
I would like to install Panther on my Beige G3 Desktop that is now running Jaguar 10.2.8. A few questions:
1. Can I just upgrade from Jaguar, or must I use Expo? 2. If Expo, how do I procede? Download Expo to my desktop, double-click, and follow instructions? 3. Can anyone who has done this share any advice, known bugs/issues, or comment on stability?
Merci, Greg
Not that difficult to do, check here for more info:
http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto.html
In addition to the top post comment above:
My Beige DT ( Rev.1 mobo and "A " ROM) was VERY particular and gave me trouble dealing with just Jaguar installs with SCSI drives on controller cards. Actually later I went with an ATA card (VST UltraTek) and a SCSI card (Adaptec 29160) and everything works well now. But there was a lot of PCI card pulling, restarts, PRAM resets, and firmware resets in Open Firmware. Maybe Xpostfacto will make installing Panther a breeze, but maybe not. At some point you may find the following helpful.
One big key for me was using Carbon Copy Cloner after my system took a sudden dislike to booting from my Jag installer CD and I didn't feel like pulling everything apart again. This assumes you already have a functioning system installed on one drive somewhere (but maybe not on the drive you want).With my Beige CCC often got "stuck" during the transfer process where it looked like it was still working but actually nothing was happening. This could be verified by my target drive going dead silent and further by doing a "Get Info" check on it and noting the volume space used. I'd wait a minute or two and check the used space again. If it was not larger then I knew no data was being transferred.
The trick here was to check which file it was stuck on in the CCC list. Then force quit, restart CCC and set up the clone again but delete all files prior to the file it was hung on as they were already transferred. Then continue the clone from there, CCC will pick up where it left off. I originally got this tip from the CCC help boards but could not locate the exact link to give.
Mike
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