OK. I appreciate the help I�ve recieved thus far for my OS X install issues. To recap, I�m running a Umax S900 with a Sonnet 800mhz G4 Crescendo, Tempo ATA 133 IDE PCI card with a Western Digital 60GB drive (the first 3GB partition of which is for X), and a Radeon 7000. I have 144mb of RAM, which isn�t a lot, but enough, and more is on the way. I was using an OEM Apple 24x CD ROM when trying to install version 10.2 using XPostFacto or Sonnet PCI Install. After exhausting all my options (and Sonnet and I tried EVERYTHING) Sonnet Support told me to use an OS X native mac to install X on my IDE drive, then use Sonnet X Tune-Up or XPostFacto to install BootX and the other various extensions needed to run OS X on an unsupported Mac or clone. Understanding how XPostFacto works, it seemed to make sense. However, even after installing everything this way, I was greeted by the same sleeping monitor as when I tried to boot from the CD ROM to install from XPostFacto. Some have said that it took their machine a while to boot into X, or the installer CD, for the first time. Well, I gave it 16 hours or so, and, nothing. I have tried contacting Bill Rose, after reading his article on Low End Mac about installing OS X on his S900, but the email address provided by the link is defunct. Apparently, it took him weeks to figure out how to get it to install and run, and I�d like to know what he did.
Using Sonnet�s idea, I now have OS X 10.2 on my drive, with the XPostFacto extensions. Now I need to figure out how to boot into it, and also to install using my S900, for future reference. Know what�s even more boggling? Even tho I can�t seem to run X, after trying to boot into it once, when I boot into 9.2, the hard drive icons on my desktop are now the very same as in X. That�s right, the OS X hard drive icons show on my OS 9 desktop. WIERD! Any ideas? Thanx. -Antonio (with the only S900 on Earth that will not run OS X) -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
