At 12:43 PM -0600 5/30/2004, Andrew J. Yon III wrote: >At first , I felt that this might be a trolling issue of some kind. You >have given very little specific information on your "G4". I have >several G4's and have a lot of 3rd party PCi cards that are installed >in them. I have most versions of the G4 on hand ( AGP, QS, MDDP, >Gooseneck, PB17) , but not necessarily all speeds of each version. All >of them are running OS X perfectly. Could you be more specific as to >exactly which G4 you are referring and exactly what third party cards >you are installing in it. Also, it will help to know more info on what >drives you have installed and in which bays, what cables are attached, >and how they are jumpered. I feel there must be extenuating >circumstances ,of some kind, in your instance. I have yet to find a G4 >that I have not been able to put any version of OS X on it that I >wanted and have it run perfectly. OS X was originally designed to run >on the G4. If it will not run on yours, there is something out of the >norm wrong with yours. Give us a little more details please. > > >Andrew J. Yon III >http://www.yonstech.com President / CEO
Thanks for the offer to help, Andrew. I'll send you my firstborn son if you can. This is a G-4 733 with 1500 megs of RAM running 9.2.2 with two IDE and two SCSI drives in it, the SCSI drives controlled by an Adaptec 2906 card in a PCI slot. Earlier attempts to install OS X were with the card pulled to see if it made any difference. It didn't. I put the card back in. The Pioneer DVR-A07 optical drive is new. Also in the PCI slots are one Radeon video card driving a second monitor,and one USB card with nothing connected to it. No FireWire devices are connected. Nothing else is connected to the computer at all, other than the keyboard and mouse. The OS X install CDs were bought from Other World Computing a few days ago. They say "eMac OS-X install disks" on the front, but OWC says they are not specific to an eMac. As I just said in an earlier post, I have discovered that a borrowed OS-X install disk from a friend's iMac will install X on this G-4, except for the Classic Support. When I launched the installer for Classic support (wondering why it is separate from the rest of the OS) I get a message saying "This disk is not supported." Classic support will not install. So I wiped all traces of OS-X from the G-4's drive and tried the eMac install CDs again, one more time, and they jammed up in a "kernel panic" as before. Decided to try the iMac's CD again, to try to find some way to get Classic Support to install after all, and now OS-X is asking for my name and a password and refuses to accept the ones I gave it before. That's about the size of it thus far. Stumped again. 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
