My Sawtooth G4 boots perfectly in both 9.2.2 and 10.3.4
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� 1965, Tom Lehrer On May 31, 2004, at 2:44 AM, Thomas Baker wrote:
At 6:04 PM -0600 5/30/2004, Frank P. Eigler wrote: ery few problems.
Seriously. Strip down the beast; reformat the drive; install from proper
CDs.
Well, I finally found out why my G-4 wouldn't install OS-X. I worked at the
problem all day and on into the night until 4 AM, and I am bald now,
because my hair is scattered around the room in the little tufts I pulled
out from time to time while screaming in frustration. At one point the G-4
was all opened up with all its insides scattered about, and there were PCI
cards, memory chips, and disconnected cables everywhere. Then I started
putting things back in, piece by piece, buttoning the box back up and
restarting the computer and trying again to install X each time. And so the
long day wore on. I lost count of the number of startups and shutdowns.
Many hours into this fiasco, OS-X finally installed. Here's what the
problem turned out to be: OS-X didn't like one of the computer's three
512-meg memory chips. Although OS 9 has always been perfectly happy with it
(for two years), X wouldn't run if that chip was in there. Every time I put
it back into a slot, OS -X had another "kernel panic."
So, there's $120 more that X is going to cost me, if I want to use it.
That's in addition to whatever I have to buy to make my printers and
peripherals work again, not to mention the time it will take
troubleshooting them. Neither my HP Laserjet 5 MP nor my Epson Stylus 1280
will print in X or its Classic mode. Eudora won't retrieve mail. I don't
know what else won't work yet, but everything I tried seemed to fail.
Then I decided to install my new iLife suite, but the computer told me that
10.2 isn't good enough, I've got to upgrade to 10.2.7. So, I went to
Apple's website and tried to download the updater, but it's gigantic--100
megs--and with my dialup connection it would take ages to download. So, I
can't use iLife either.
I have found this OS-X to be just one giant, expensive pain in the neck,
and although it's now finally installed on this G-4 (and will even start up
in it, if I leave one third of my computer's memory out), I can't really
see what I'm gaining here. I will have to live in 9.2.2 for all practical
purposes, as I begin the long struggle that I see every day on this list as
people try to make their equipment and apps work in OS-X. Will it be worth
it in the end? I don't know. And I can't go up to 10.3, because I've been
told that it removes the ability to boot back into OS 9.
All I do know is that I've never in my life had so much trouble with
anything as I've had these last two days trying to install OS-X on this
computer. It's just been pure hell, and had I known what I was in for, I
never would have tried it.
Everybody talks about how much trouble Windows is, but I would ask this: do
Windows installers have to rip the entire insides out of their computers
just to install an OS? I seriously doubt it. So much for Apple's vaunted
"ease of use, plug-and-play," and all the other things that Macs used to
stand for.
Tom
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