I have an early G3 iMac, Bondi or Blueberry, I'm not sure...
slot-loading 4Gb HD 256Mb RAM 350MHz
Had OS 9.1 if I remember correctly (got it secondhand about 5-6 years
ago) which I upped to 9.2.2 at first, and then 2 years ago loaded
Panther (OSX 10.3.9). Also have the same-era G3 Clamshell laptop
(so-called 'toilet seat' haha) with roughly same specs... replaced those
with G4 and G5 machines over the last 2 years, but still have the G3s
Ikea'd in plain view, I swap them on and off my 4-mac lan (which
includes my trusty Power Mac 8600 MacOS 8.6) occasionally. All
secondhand.... don't need brand new, never did.
joshuallen wrote:
It's a slot loader with a 20GB hard drive and 256 MB of RAM. I can't
say if it's a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. It's the model that has the
door on the back to accept an airport card or to swap out the RAM, and
2 firewire ports. I suspect that the HD and RAM must have been
upgrades. I figured out how to partition it using the full install
disk of OS 9 the guy gave me, and then I reinstalled to OS X.1. I
figured maybe it was necessary, maybe not, but either way, I'd have an
extra partition if I wanted to do a dual boot or anything. I'm
starting to get the hang of OSX now, and it runs pretty well on this
machine. I wish I could upgrade to take advantage of the software out
there, but I don't think it's in the cards, unless I see something pop
up on craigslist.
On Apr 20, 10:49 pm, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 4/20/10 2:41 PM, Elliott Price wrote:
With the first-generation G3 Macs, there were some drive addressing
problems that prevented it to boot from OSX if it wasn't on the first
8Gb of the disk. This is my understanding of it, I may be wrong about
why, but those models definitely have that restriction. I *think* it was
only the G3 minitower, the G3 desktop, and maybe the Bondi iMac. If the
HD is under 8Gb, then there's no problem.
I believe it applies to all tray loader iMacs which includes the next
generation after the Bondi. And that group DID include a tangerine
model. I was thinking there wasn't a tangerine in the tray loader clan
which made me skip the 8Gb issue. You're right, that is a potential issue.
To the OP, does your new toy have a tray loader or slot loader optical
drive. If you have a tray loader then you do need to partition the HD
with a slightly less than 8Gb partition at the beginning of the HD to
install OS X onto. If you have a slot loader then you don't need to
partition the drive.
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