Does Panther have a disk corruption issue?
I installed 10.3 and updates (at the time) on a pismo. Worked fine for 2 weeks
then one day I got the wonderful question mark. I started up from the CD
and tried to repair disk permissions, but disk first aid could not find an install to repair.
So I reformat and reinstall. Everything fine for a week and the same thing happens.
I replaced the hard drive thinking it had gone south, and install 10.2.8 and have had no problems since. Out of curiosity I installed the same 12 Gig HD from the Pismo (the one I thought was bad) into my Lombard and reformat but install 10.2.8 this time.
It's been running without a hitch for 4 months!
Sounds more like a flakey drive to me. It could also be a hardware issue in the Pismo. I've been running Panther on my iBook 700, B&W 400, and Sawtooth 450 for a long time and have had no issues that couldn't be corrected by repairing permissions occasionally. Once I get some more RAM and a bigger hard drive for my Tangerine iMac (333, currently running Jag), I plan to upgrade it too.
JR
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