on 4/1/01 6:45 PM, J. Keith Putnam wrote:
>> On 03/27/2001 00:30, "Harry (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I concur, but you are just talking about a feeling, right? You don't really
>>> have any significant proof of that core stability, right?
>>
>> How about 2 weeks of running on a 64MB PB, more stable than when I have 192
>> MB in, and running under 9.1 (I have a hinky RAM controller, which is why I
>> have different RAM configs.).
>>
>> john
> Hi Guys, I have more than a feeling, and it is not good.
>
> I run a G3 350, B&W. I have a 30 gig IBM ATA 100 as a second internal drive.
> I dedicated the entire thing to OS X. My first installation took about three
> tries to complete. On the first boot, IE didn't work, nor did
> Classic(Couldn't find the ROM, or something). When I finally achieved a
> re-boot, IE worked and Classic did, also. I found that, each time I had
> reason to restart OS X, that what came up was different. One time, the Dock
> was entirely unavailable. Another time, if I ever chose a view other than
> icon view, the window in question disappeared.
>
> The failure to start up was, in most cases, accompanied by the explanations
> that, at this point are quite alien to me. It said something about
> unresolved traps and what all it tried before the panic, then said it was
> looking for a remote debugger and offered to continue or reboot. Continue
> caused the same message. A second continue offered a nice note akin to
> "We're hanging here"
>
> If you have time to address these things, assume I know squat about servers,
> unix, etc.
>
> Oh, and should I expect an ADB mouse to work? The keyboard works but my
> Kensington Orbit doesn't. I haven't shut down to try the Apple ADB. I loathe
> the puck and can't find it's shell.
>
I read somewhere (maybe in the docs) that OSX can't be installed on a
HD/partition bigger than 8 gigs. It took three tries to get it installed.
The first two I hadn't partitioned the HD or installed OS9.1
Two times a Classic app crashed, one was the Scrapbook (is there an OSX
version?). IEX 5.1 crashed 4 times. E'rage none.
My ADB Apple mouse works fine. So does my Kensington Optical Pro USB mouse,
although none of the buttons are configurable & the scroll only works in
some apps, never in the Finder.
Forget trying to network 2 Macs & go online on the iMac that doesn't have
OSX. You can't AppleTalk over Ethernet like in the old days. It has to be
done using TCP/IP & the settings have to be changed each & every time you
want to switch.
My Color Stylewriter printer doesn't work in OSX. Serial printing isn't
supported. USB printing & sharing are built in but I could never get it to
work. I take that back, I couldn't get networked USB printing to work.
I didn't have a problem with Entourage at all, Drag & Drop of 'Microsoft
User Data' into the root Documents folder, Drag & Drop of the MS Office
folder from the CD to the Applications (OS 9) folder.
I did fresh install everything except certain prefs & files, if that makes a
difference...
Don't get me wrong, I want to learn OSX & be the first so I can teach & show
& WOW people but I feel like I'm learning to walk all over again...IN THE
DARK. Anybody know of some good books on UNIX for newbies, in relation to
OSX?
I could go on but this isn't the forum (where is?).
--
Robert Strachan
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
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