On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 11:36 PM, Mark Benson wrote: > I am - as I posted yesterday - about to get a B&W G3/400. It's a > pretty much stock Rev 2 machine and will get Jaguar installed on it > as soon as I get a hold of the CDs. I just wanted to poll those who > have installed Jaguar on their B&W G3 machines to see what the > opinions are of it, how generally fast it is and how applications > perform. My approx. spec will be 12GB+40GB/512MB/Rage 128 so I'm not > looking at anything spectacular like a Radeon card yet. > >
I installed 10.2 on my B&W (rev 2 MB, G4/500Mhz upgrade, 1gig ram, IBM 60gxp 40gb and Maxtor 740X 80gb HDs) this weekend. There were problems. Initially I installed into the existing OS 10.1 partition using the Archive and Install option. While the installation went smoothly, I noticed that several thing just didn't work. The mail app would come up with the menu and nothing else. In addition it would not quit with cmd Q (I had to use force quit). Some system preferences were broken. The Help app would just hang when searching. Next I installed into a clean (freshly formatted) partition. Same result. I then removed all third party add-ons (replaced the G4 with the original G3, removed the USB card, the extra memory, and replaced both large HDs with the original 6 GB Quantam). Now after installing, everything worked. I restored the G4, memory, and USB card. It still worked. At this point I had narrowed the problem down to the hard disk. I restored the IBM drive and installed into the 30 GB partition which I had previously been using. Again there were the same problems. I then reduced the size of the installation partition size to about 7 GB. After reinstalling, everything worked. The problem seems to be installing 10.2 into a large partition, at least on an IBM 60GXP. I know that there are some issues with installing OS X into a > 8 GB partition on beige G3s, but I have not heard of this occuring on B&Ws. BTW, this was not an issue with OS 10.1 (or 10.0) which lived happily in the 30 GBs that I allocated for it. Has anyone else seen this particular problem? Is it related to the brand of hard disk, or is it a more general issue? At some point I will try installing on the Maxtor (right now it is being used as a media drive for video), and see what happens. Overall, I find 10.2 to be a worthwhile upgrade. It seems snappier, and the SMB networking is much better. I can connect both ways now to my Windows machine. Alan Robinson __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
