On Nov 15, 2008, at 11/15, 6:20 AM, ME wrote:

> My only mistake? Ran the 10.3.9 combined update and now Panther  
> refuses to boot :-( But that is an Xpostfacto issue.

With correct XPostFacto settings the Wallstreet should at least boot  
10.3.9 successfully. The only problem I know of is the video driver  
incompatibility.

> Or possibly to do with memory. Did 10.3.9 tighten up memory chip  
> requirements?

No. But the Wallstreet hardware is picky:

> I attempted to use a  512mb pc133 chip initially

One single chip? No good. The Wallstreet hardware has no idea what  
you're are doing. The best you can do is two compatible 256 MB chips.  
You can look up compatible chips over at OtherWorldComputing. com.  
Apple has some documentation about it in the Support area if you can  
tolerate their search system. I don't have the reference handy.

> and 10.3.0 seemed to fail in the same way. It booted right away  
> when I  put back the original RAM. I can fiddle with all that later  
> though :-)

It definitely helps to have the RAM maxed out at 512K. But also  
having at least 1 GB of free HD space is critical. Otherwise you get  
the dreaded spinning lollipop of DOOM all the time. The more free HD  
space the better. 10.3 was much better at virtual memory use (versus  
10.2!), but you gotta have that free space.


:-D


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