I don't know. It's worth a try, but some beige G3's are flat-out =20
resistant to OS X.
Well, an install of OSX v. 1, "aqua", just like the description in an
old Mac magazine I found, when X was unleashed, worked (works) fine.
Strange to see a colored, shaded happy mac upon boot, and the quaint
look of everything. BTW: The machine won't shut down. It shuts down
when told to do so, bu after 10-15 minutes turns on again by itself.
And if it's acutally "off", the keyboard won't work. Then one has to
lean onto the rear of the case, and BONG! it wakes up (like normal).
Weird, huh?
I had a friend trying to install 10.2 on his, and kept running into =20
problems like yours. Fortunately he had a friend who had several =20
other G3's handy (and who is an Apple dealer technician) who =20
eventually tested every component of the system except the case; =20
everything worked fine when put in other systems, but when they were =20
all together, no go.
Eventually the tech just swapped motherboards with him, and it worked =20=
fine.
I suspect there's a lot more variation in the G3 series than just =20
'three ROM revs' cover. I was one of the unlucky ones who had a Rev C =20=
that couldn't work with the Sonnet trio card.
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Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
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Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:25:27 +0000
From: Liam Proven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing OSX on a G3 Tower
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 24/11/05, Peter Udbj=F8rg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Plenty of RAM (512 MB), machine of the G3 type that sits in a 8600 casing=
.
I have OS9 on one partition, and use that as helper (Also XPF on that dis=
k).
Just a thought.
[1] Have you tried removing *all* non-essential devices while
installing? That can often help.
There are no PCI cards, and installing OSX 1 went just fine.
[2] Can you describe, in detail, the disk partitioning setup you have for u=
s?
Boot volume: 7,02 Gb
Second volume: 5,43 Gb
OS9 volume: 1,15 Gb
All Mac OS Extended, partitioned w drive setup in OSX (as far as I
colud get in installing 10.3 with XPF).
Guess that makes it a 20 GB volume, then.
Also have as of yesterday tossed in my old 6500's HD, a 3 GB ATA OS9
volume, just for kicks. It was lying around, and it's plenty of room
in the box, so what the hey...
Should I perhaps let OS9 be on a completely different disk?
Also I have 10.2. Do you think it might work to do an upgrade? I'll try...
- peter
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