Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Meade
Bruce Mitchell wrote: I have a 20GB HD on a 333 Lombard and would like to install OSX, but have been told by experts that OSX would run painfully slow, much slower than 9.2, so I've given up on that idea. OSX on my desktop G3 BW upgraded to G4 works like a dream, no problems at all, I love it.

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-06 Thread Richard Smykla
Tom, Using a 17GB Toshiba HD here on my OS X-equipped Lombard 333, with no problems installing or otherwise. Is it slower than my G4 (or even my daughter's iMac 400)? No doubt. But for typical web, email, word processing tasks it's fine. Can I run Photoshop on it . . . errr, yes, but I

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-06 Thread Jacob Saariaho
I installed a TravelStar 30Gig HD and 512MB of Ram in my Lombard and have been running Jaguar exclusively. I love it, but I've always found computer speed to be a somewhat relative matter. What did I expect from a 4 year old computer? And how much money did I spend on the machine. Adding a

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-06 Thread John Kamimura
I mentioned earlier that there was a thread over at Macfixit on problems with OS X and LOmbards Here is the URL http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Cat=Board=Forum35Number=178765page=0view=collapsedsb=5o=fpart=1 If this doesn't work do a search in the portables forum for OS X Freeze

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-05 Thread Ron van Veen
Tom Meade heeft op zondag, 5 okt 2003 om 01:35 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven: Well, it's got me beat. A dozen attempts and I've run out of tricks here. Sounds like you've got an inspired machine. Install CD from caddy - OK, where will it hang this time? You never know. Install CD

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-05 Thread JeffH
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 16:35:06 -0700 From: Tom Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Giving up on Lombard OS X Well, it's got me beat. A dozen attempts and I've run out of tricks here. Install CD from caddy - OK, where will it hang this time? Install CD from G3 Beige via Target Disk Mode (SCSI

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-05 Thread Bruce Mitchell
On 10/5/03 11:11 AM, JeffH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 16:35:06 -0700 From: Tom Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Giving up on Lombard OS X Well, it's got me beat. A dozen attempts and I've run out of tricks here. Install CD from caddy - OK, where will it hang

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-05 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 05/10/03 14:51, Bruce Mitchell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 20GB HD on a 333 Lombard and would like to install OSX, but have been told by experts that OSX would run painfully slow, much slower than 9.2, so I've given up on that idea. OSX on my desktop G3 BW upgraded to G4 works

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-05 Thread Shayne Croy
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 02:30 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 05/10/03 14:51, Bruce Mitchell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 20GB HD on a 333 Lombard and would like to install OSX, but have been told by experts that OSX would run painfully slow, much slower than 9.2 I wasn't going

Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-04 Thread Tom Meade
Well, it's got me beat. A dozen attempts and I've run out of tricks here. Install CD from caddy - OK, where will it hang this time? Install CD from G3 Beige via Target Disk Mode (SCSI) - runs for a while, freezes. Install, clean, one partition or two - no difference - install process even