What you describe is my 10.3.9 experience also, except a 512 ram 233 mhz Wallstreet first version runs 256 colors – not thousands – if installed with xpostfactor that has no special drivers installed (the Rage chip is not the Rage pro – so that driver was not checked off to be installed, and the Ndev option I did not understand so I did not check it. In 256 colors it works fine – excellent wireless email as the airport 4 program can be installed and that solves the protected network problems. As to min HD size, my “minimum” system has no problem being limited to the original 2 gig hard drive.
However the 400 mhz Lombard at 10.3.9 is more than twice as fast on everything – and many times faster on most. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean Bernier Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Wallstreet issues HELLO, i did the same and had no problems at all. It is running system 10.3.9. I also install all the Apple updates available for Panther on the internet. Jean . Le 08-11-15, à 20:41, Derek Currie a écrit : 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 =================== Derek Currie [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================== http://Mac-Security.blogspot.com http://MacSmarticles.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
