Evening all, I've just acquired a B/W G3 450 with 704Mb RAM running OS 9.0.4. It's my first Mac (after years of PC ownership and working with them from 9-5) so please be gentle with me...
Is it worth investigating the possibility of installing OS 10.4 on this machine, or will that be too much for the processor? If so, is there an idiot's guide on the net anywhere about how to go about it (so I can read up before making any comittment financially), as my machine has 3 discs, 1* 20Gb ATA partitioned into 2 10-ish Gb partitions and 2* 8.5 Gb SCSI discs and my gut instinct (from my PC experience) would be to install the OS on one of the SCSI discs, rather than on the first IDE partition (as OS9 currently is), as the SCSI ones should be faster. I've read somewhere that for OS10 to install on a G3 it has to be installed on a disc/partition of 8Gb or less. Is this correct? Would installing it onto an 8.5 Gb disc fail? I can't seem to find anything that will (re)partition a disc, does OS9 provide anything natively? I'm finding my way around the filesystem and the (to me) weird keyboard combinations etc relatively quickly and could get used to OS9, but as I have had some past experiences with Unix at work, OS10 appeals, even if some of the more esoteric bells and whistles appear to be more eye-candy that useful. Failing that, I may have a look at Linux on the Mac. Ubuntu do a live CD ( i.e. run Linux from the CD ROM) version that's compatible with the G3, so I can have a look and see whow it looks without necessarily b*ggering up the machine. Final question (for now...). I've managed to lock the machine up a couple of times by my own stupidity. Is there a way of breaking out of something that's just showing the 'busy' cursor other than hitting the reset knob on the front of the system box? All in all, I'm pretty impressed with the Mac, but I knew I would be. Rob -- So many cats So few recipes... -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.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/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
