On 7 Feb 2010, at 16:50, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote:
OK then I assume that a Wallstreet is an "OLD WORLD" machine?
Yes. Everything prior to the Lombard is, iirc. As a rule of thumb, any PowerPC machine with a rainbow logo is old world.
That may explain the trouble I'm having with a 60 GB drive in my Wally with XPostfacto. maybe I need to use the drive setup on my OS9 install disk?
Um, well, maybe. The best results for Xpostfacto are from installing on the actual hardware. Have you considered cloning the Tiger install DVD on to the drive and using that to install? So have a helper partition, a Tiger DVD clone and then install on the third partition? This will work, so long as the clone is perfect.
Most issues I've had with XPF revolve around either, wrong drivers/ helpers being installed, using the latest version on hardware they no longer test on or is known to be buggy (read the release notes - try the 3.x line), or the disk cache being corrupt/out of sync.
XPF seems like it should be trivial, and it is when it goes well or you know what you need to do to trouble shoot, but it isn't for everyone. If you can stick with Panther, it comes on CD media and was a breeze to install. If you want to go for Tiger, might be worth investing in a DVD module for your Wallstreet. They do exist, I have one myself that is Apple branded.
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