Larry:
First, I'm definitely not an expert on this, but from the pull down menus in XPostFacto, it indicates it installs BootX, extensions and Startup items. You also have some additional options, many of which relate to debugging. Probably for a wallstreet user, the main checkbox to select is the one to use old video drivers. I assume that everything is installed on the hard drive. In both of my cases, I was doing an upgrade from Jaguar and while I was having some initial problems geting the upgrade going, it would start right back into Jaguar.
I've installed Panther on my 233 Wallstreet and a Beige G3. In both instances, it was a little quirky getting it to install and I'm not exactly sure what the problem was, but in both cases it eventually installed and hasn't caused a bit of problems since. For example, with the Wallstreet it wouldn't install from OS9, but it did from OSX (You can launch XPostFacto in either 9 or X. In fact, you HAVE TO use X PostFacto to restart in X from 9, you can't use the startup control panel). With the Beige G3, it wouldn't install from either, until when I was running XPostFacto, I noticed that their was a pull down menu for cache and one of the options was to empty Cache. I did that, and then tried to install Panther and the install went just fine.
I would certainly encourage you to download the XPostFacto application and launch it and look around at it a bit. If this makes you a little nervous, then quit the application and there is no harm done. It's just an application. Then, if you choose to, you can pay the registration fee which will give you the right to post to their discussion list. Ask questions there, if you're a little gunshy about taking the plunge.
If you've got anything important on this machine, then by all means back it up. In my case, both of my machines were machines I had bought and was upgrading. If I had to completely revert back to 10.2.8, it wasn't going to be a big deal. XPostFacto just went beta, so it clearly isn't without bugs, although it has worked just fine.
John
On Jul 4, 2004, at 4:09 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: john slavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well you download and install XPostfacto first.
Then you run XPostfacto and it will install some
stuff and then you'll have the option of installing
off the Panther CD, so it will reboot onto the Pather CD and install away.
Does XPostfacto alter something on the hard drive or or in "ROM", i.e. unaffected by a reformat ??? ---I just did an upgrade from Jaguar, so you need to get your os 9 problem figured out.
Surely one can just chuck a fresh OS 9 System in afterwards and then blessing it (if needed) in one of the ways discussed here ?!?
Larry
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