Roland,
I recently installed Jaguar on my Power Mac 7600, which has a Sonnet
G3 500, 256MB RAM, 1 GB SCSI drive for OS 9.1, a Maxtor 160GB drive
(8GB of which is reserved for OS X), an ATI Radeon 7000, a Macally
USB/Firewire card, and an ACARD6280M ATA controller card for the 160GB
drive.
That's a pretty decent config; bump the RAM up to 512 or better as soon
as you can.
Also, the 8 GB first partition limit doesn't apply to your 160 MB drive
on the Acard card. You can partition or not as you choose; I'd put
Panther on the first partition if you do, though.
After the computer reboots using XPostFacto with the Panther disc
installed, it stalls after a few moments
and states, "panic...we are hanging here". Finally I got past this
issue by readjusting the Throttle option in the Enable L2/L3 cache
section. Values lower than 5 produced that same panic message. When I
set it to at least 5, the computer proceeded with the installation to
the point where the video came up on screen. Unfortunately, when the
video came on, the screen output was all garbled, but I knew it was at
the start screen for installing Panther.
Two separate issues I got around with my PCPro thusly:
First, disable XPF's cache enabler part of the install completely. Use
something like CPU Director from PowerLogix (free download).
Second, you may need to pull the Radeon completely and reinstall after
you get up and running.
I forgot to mention that I am using the 7600's built-in video with an
old Performa 14" monitor to perform the upgrade.
Isn't the Performa 14" a fixed-res monitor? It might not support the
minimum required resolution (16 bits @ 800 x 600, I think). You may
need to beg, borrow or steal a newer 15" or better.
Gene, a.k.a. G-Man
Never swallow anything bigger than your pride
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