Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-28 Thread Charles Lenington
On 6/27/11 1:25 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 27-06-2011 19:27, Michael McMurtrey ha scritto: All is fine now, but sometimes I think there is as much witchcraft/black magic to these things as there is computer "science." I have been a programmer and computer user since 1983. I did tech a

Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-27 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 27-06-2011 19:27, Michael McMurtrey ha scritto: > All is fine now, but sometimes I think there is as much > witchcraft/black magic to these things as there is computer "science." I have been a programmer and computer user since 1983. I did tech assistance to lots of people's PC... amd I

Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-27 Thread Michael McMurtrey
On Jun 26, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Or, you might just had a "bad monday" case. ;-) That must have been the problem. After letting the computer sit all night with power off, when I started it the next morning it booted up right away into OS 9.2 from my ATA drive. I was then ab

Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-25 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 25-06-2011 23:53, Kris Tilford ha scritto: > Beige are flakey and difficult. I once had one I had to strip down to > NOTHING except a optical drive and RAM to get a CD to boot. Then I > added back a HD and finally installed. VERY frustrating. AFAIK, Beige G3s are one of the most stable

Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 25, 2011, at 9:14 AM, skyking...@verizon.net wrote: When I try to boot back into OS 9 (which is on my other drive) after the OS X installation hangs up following the first disc, it hangs at the happy Mac icon. The only way for me to get back to OS 9 is to boot from the OS 9 CD or a N

Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-25 Thread Charles Davis
On Jun 25, 2011, at 10:14 AM, skyking...@verizon.net wrote: When I try to boot back into OS 9 (which is on my other drive) after the OS X installation hangs up following the first disc, it hangs at the happy Mac icon. The only way for me to get back to OS 9 is to boot from the OS 9 CD or

Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-25 Thread skyking918
Jun 25, 2011 05:57:11 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: You have to "install" the XPF extensions onto the newly installed OS X System software because the initial installation is "clean" or "vanilla". The easiest way to do this is boot OS 9.x and use XPF to "Install Everything" onto the newly installed OS