I'm right on the verge of putting a brick through this monitor. I went over to a friend's house and borrowed his OS X installer CD for his 2003 iMac, which installs 10.2.7. Took it back home to my G-4.
Put the iMac install CD into the G-4, and lo and behold the OS-X install screen comes up. Great. ReadMe says it will install X on any G-4. Installed OS-X. Tried to launch some of my old apps in X. Nothing. Little spinning wheel, pretty colors, spins forever. Force-quit it. Message box comes up: "You must install Classic support." I go back to the installer CD, and there is Classic Support Installer. I click on the installer. Message comes up: "This disk is not supported." Damn, damn, and double damn. Okay, but this at least shows that the G-4 will take X, right? Something must be better. If the iMac CD won't install all of X, then maybe I can go back to the eMac CDs that OWC sold me and install a complete 10.2 from them. So, I trash all traces of OS X that I can find on the G-4's hard drive and start all over. In goes the eMac CD. Up comes the same old Kernel Panic screen: "You need to restart your computer." Okay then, the eMac CD is worthless. I think, let's go back to the iMac CD and try one more time. Maybe there's a way to make the Classic Support install after all. It was so close . . . The iMac install CD once again brings up the OS-X install screen, and once again installs X, but suddenly there is a box asking for my name and password. Where did that come from? Okay, I gave the thing my name and the password I gave it on the last installation. No dice, it shakes them off. I try every name and pasword I've ever used on a computer, and it shakes them all off. The only alternative it offers is a shutdown. Where's a brick . . . . Tom Art website at http://www.ThomasBakerPaintings.com Archaeology website at http://www.nmia.com/~jaybird/AANewsletter/ -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
