I've spent the last 3 months with a Wallstreet 233 and while you can do a clean install of OS10.03, upgrade to 10.04, upgrade to 11.0, upgrade via download - one at a time - to 11.1, then 11.2, then 11.3, then 11.4, then 11.5, that is where it stops (a combined download upgrade to 11.5 kills it also). Any attempt at OSX 10.2, clean or upgrade, dies. Likewise keeping OS 9.2.2 usually, for me, has led to kernel panic seized up machine (a very stripped down "9.2" survived on one try but it was barely usable in Classic mode). Likewise XPOSTFACTO does not install 10.2 from 9.2.2 as the screen freezes.
Now all the above is weird because I had 10.2.8 running on the machine 4 months ago, and tried to install some app upgrades and in the middle of the install the screen froze with two 2 inch weird bars going across the screen. Now that is the screen I always get when I try to do a clean install of 10.2. Now the Pram battery is weak (it barely holds the year over night, losing the correct day - and restart most times/sometimes doesn't work requiring removal of all power and then replug) so it may be a hardware problem. At lease 9.2.2 just keeps running and running :-) Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beniamino Cenci Goga Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 1:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: problem wallstreet Since I guess you have no clue on what has been installed and how, I do suggest to boot with the OS X CD, erase and reinstall. If you don't want to reinstall try to boot off the OS X CD and run the hard disk utility. Ben On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Phyllis Swanson wrote: > > I used the option key - got the old little mac in the middle of the > screen. Screen went black and it rebooted into OSX. Then same problem. > > Tried again with OS9 install disk. It is up now. So it looks like a > software problem. What should be my course of action to get OS X > working on this machine? > > phyllis swanson > http://home.earthlink.net/~psswanson > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Beniamino Cenci Goga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:20:14 AM > Subject: Re: problem wallstreet > > > My suggestion, just to rule out hardware problems is to boot it up > with OS 8 or 9, as it was the original OS. I recall it can be > obtained by pressing the alt (option) key at startup. Try this first > and let us know. > > Ben > > > On Sep 19, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Phyllis Swanson wrote: > >> >> Hi - >> I've been lurking for a little while, and now inherited a problem >> Wallstreet. It has been upgraded from 233 to 466 Mhz, has 512 MB >> ram; the last time I saw, the hard drive was partitioned into three >> - for OSX, OS9, and data. >> >> The WS boots up fine - get the light grey screen with dark grey >> apple and the clockwise running lines, but when it's time to change >> the screen to finder it goes black. I hear the hard drive being >> accessed, but nothing on the screen. >> >> Is there any other info that someone may need? >> >> phyllis swanson >> http://home.earthlink.net/~psswanson >> >>> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
