On May 30, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Thomas Baker wrote:
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
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