From: William Ove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>On XPostFacto's Compatability page, the following is listed for 5400, 5500, 6300, 6360, 6400, and 6500:Unfortunately, you can't. I had a 5400, same thing pretty much, also listed as 'unsupported', but I tried to get jaguar working on it
That is simply untrue. XPostFacto has supported the 5500 with a G3 L2 upgrade for some time and the lastest release (alpha) even supports the 5500 with the 603 processor.
Unsupported, but in progress. The main problem is that SCSI and Ethernet are not working, which makes installation difficult. Also, will not work with Mac OS X 10.2 or later, because of 603 CPU.
Now if you had a G3, you'd be technically capable of making it run. But without ethernet (unless you use the 1 onboard PCI slot for it or wireless), you won't get much too useful done in OS X, and the SCSI problem is what prevents the CD-ROM drive from working. If you could get an IDE CD-ROM in there somehow (not sure because of the weird cabling on the inside), MAYBE it would work. And yeah, unfortunately the most RAM it can have is something weird like 136mb (2 64mb chips plus 8mb onboard) or something around there, and OS X wouldn't be that quick.
As for Linux, it didn't work at the time I last checked (last year). That may have changed, but since I have sold my 5400 and now use a 9500 with 10.3.8, I haven't looked into it recently.
Of course, I would try anyways :). It's a nice machine, and it's always fun to try to make it do something unsupported. I just ruined a G3 all-in-one trying to hack the internal monitor to use a new PCI video card (almost had it working, but shorted something and killed the motherboard), but it was a fun adventure, so no loss.
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