I've had excellent luck loading Tiger onto hard drives for clamshells by removing the hard drive & plugging them into a FireWire enclosure, then loading the OS directly from a regular desktop, like your GigE via the FireWire. The beautiful thing is that you do not need to bother with Xpost Facto to load, nor to run the OS once you've re- installed the HD. You also can load the OS directly from the GigE's optical drive, without jumping thru any hoops. It's a pain in the patooie getting at the hard drive in a clamshell, but worthwhile. You can use the opportunity to upgrade the HD while you're at it. Tiger runs surprising well on a clamshell, especially if you slap a 512 Meg ram stick in there.
Scott Birdwell Houston TX On Nov 9, 1:39 pm, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > PETER WARNER wrote: > > Oops, > > Ok, I wanted to install tiger on my pre-firewire clamshell (tangerine > > 300 mhz with 9.2.1 currently installed) So I got XpostFacto 4, > > and .dmg's of the install CDs, (I have the DVD, and could not find > > real copies of the CDs) On my GigE G4 I used disk utility to convert > > the files to .cdr, and burned the disks. Then, I inserted Disc 1 into > > the iBook, and started xpf. It recognized the disk, but the install > > button was grayed out. > > > After a few restarts, and tries, I decided to try something (feel > > free to read that as 'I did something stupid, and now want your help > > getting out of it') I restarted holding down the "C" key... So the > > install CD starts up just fine, and gives me the error 'OS can't be > > installed on this system' or something very similar. It gave me the > > option to restart, or choose a startup disk. So i chose the 9.2.1 > > disk on the HDD, and restarted. It restarted back from the install > > disk in 10.4. So I went through the process again, and ejected the CD > > at startup this time. It gave me the Classic happy mac folder icon > > flashing back and forth with the ? folder icon. > > > So I tried doing a restart while holding the "option" key, I did not > > get any choices, I then tried the"D" key. No Joy. I tried > > "apple"-"option", nothing..... > > Holding down "C" at startup boots from the CD-ROM drive, AFAIK, "D" > doesn't do anything. > > > > > So, without being able to access any OS, how do you re-bless a system > > folder? Can I do a network boot from the GigE? Is there something > > more nefarious that I have caused here? > > Boot from the OS-9 disk using the C key. > > You might want to try a PRAM reset as the startup disk is one of it's > parameters. > > > > > Peter > > > P.S. why didn't X.P.F. allow the install to begin with? > > Good question. > > I had trouble trying to install Tiger on my clamshell. I assume I used > XPF but I don't recall. I don't have Tiger on CDs so I used an external > USB DVD drive. Slow but it worked. > > Odd, but I did have trouble trying to install Debian Linux on it. It > booted the CD-ROM okay but it kept having trouble installing from the > CD. It sounded like the drive kept spinning up and down and the > installer acted as if the drive wasn't working. But with Tiger I had no > trouble using it, including copying an entire CD-ROM to HD as a test. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
