On Jan 2, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > John Carmonne wrote: >> Howdy Felix >> >> Well I finally got down to trying to install Panther on a Wally 300 512. So >> far I think it's happening. >> Very slooooow. After I read your thread I downloaded XPostFact , read the >> instructions and >> screwed up twice, had to start from an OS9 install disk to fix the drive. >> After that It started to work. >> >> I had a hard time understanding the way that the install is done by running >> XPostfacto from the >> same drive that the install is going on. Scared the crap out of me when all >> that writing began to >> scroll down the monitor. >> >> 1.5 hours for the first CD so far. I hope after the 10.3.5 I can get Tiger >> on it before Monday comes:-) >> >> The machine is a 300MHZ with 512 RAM my Panther is coming from one of my >> iMac 600s it >> ran quite well on the 10.3.5 and then I updated it to 10.3.9 before the >> Tiger went on all the iMacs. >> >> Do you think after Panther is on it and all is well I can put the drive in a >> TiBook to do a Tiger install >> or am I better of sticking with Panther? > > I can't say, I never ran Tiger on a Wallstreet although I've heard good > things. > > BUT... You don't need to install Panther first, you can install Tiger > directly. > > I'm not sure about installing it on another machine. Are you doing that > in order to install Tiger from a DVD? I'm not sure how you get the > XPostFacto code installed. > Yes I was thinking that I need a DVD drive for my Tiger disk. But now that I have Panther installed and all seems well I can't seem to get my FW card to mount any drives. So maybe back to the drawing board. I also need to get 9 on it to boot.
At the moment all is on a 6GB HDD I want to put a 20GB drive in. I guess I should have started this by partitioning first off, but oh well I'm in the soup now. I also read in the instructions that I have to observe the 8GB rule because I have a WallStreet. Wow how slow the mail was today I started this at 9:00 AM glad to hear from someone John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA -- 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] To leave 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/
