On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Da'Birdman wrote: > There are, AFAIK two ways to load Tiger onto the old Clamshells. The > obvious way is to use XpostFacto from Other World Computing, then load > the OS. It's free, but you'll have to have your Tiger OS on CD rather > than DVD. I've had mixed results with XP, but there are some Old World > Macs that this would be your only avenue. Fortunately, there is > another way to do this: you load the OS onto a hard drive in your 466 > Clamshell, then move the drive over to the 300 mhz models. They'll > run Tiger then with no problem as long as you've put at least a 256 > meg stick of ram in the one and only memory slot. Frankly, the 512 > meg sticks have come down to such a reasonable price, I can't > emphasize enough how much better they'll run with a 512 meg stick, > plus the on-board memory (32 or 64 megs, depending whether your 300 > mhz Clamshell were first generation or second). I have a number of > non-firewire Clamshells running Tiger very nicely. Hope this helps > and good luck. >
I loaded Tiger on my 300MHz Clamshell using a USB DVD drive. I don't remember but I must have used XPostFacto to do it. It took awhile but it worked. 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] 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/
