Art, for what it's worth, I didn't format mine to a full 8 gb. It's
possisble that might be your problem. Mine is more in the neighborhood
of 7.8, and actually I have 7 or so with OS X, .8 GB with 9 on the
next partition and the rest as a data partition. I did the partition
from the 9 installer cd and then installed 9 on that second smallish
partition. Then I installed XPostfacto and installed Panther on the
bigger first partition. I've done this on two Wallstreets with no
problems
On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:46 PM, Art Richard wrote:
Jim,
I appreciate your input. I don't know if waiting and trying to
Load OS X later will do much good. I have been trying to load OS X
for almost a year, trying every few months. Recently, I upgraded my
disk drive from 4 Gigs to 12 Gigs, and formatted the disk into two
partitions, the lower one being 8 Gigs. Of course, I will keep
trying, but I don't have much confidence that it will ever work. The
only OS X system disks I have are OS 10.2. These disks loaded OK on
my G3 Blue & White 400 Mhz Mac, so I think that the disks are OK.
Art Richard (St. Petersburg, FL)
On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:11 PM, James Sanderson wrote:
I know this is probably not going to be helpful for getting X on the
WS; however, I had a similar problem installing X on a B/W. I tried
and tried and tried and tried. I swapped memory and tried a number
of things that didn't work. Then I gave up. One day a FEW months
later--about seven--I gave it a try. And lo! it installed without a
hitch. I have no clue why after so many months it allowed the
installation.
I guess the point is that you can try all the freakin' tech stuff
that should allow you to do what you know you should be able to do on
the machine, but the machine sometimes decides when it will do it.
;-)
Serious suggestion: try a different HD. I had a WS--a 4 GB
original--that would do the same thing when I was installing X.2. I
bought a new HD--a 20 GB--and partitioned it per the specs
and--voilá!--it installed without a hitch. Also, I have had terrible
luck installing and working with X.2 on a WS. X.3 has proven
flawless.
Jim Sanderson
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