I have a G3 AIO with 384 MB memory currently running OS 9.2.2. It is a
pretty good solid machine. It is not my mian machine, I use it with my Ham
Radio.
In an attempt to come into the 21st Century I am going to upgrade it. I have a 400 MHz G3 ZIF processor to add, OSX 10.2.8 to add, and a Yamaha external SCSI CD-RW to install.
Is there any preferred order to installing this? My initial plan is to install the CD-RW, the processor, and then OSX. The AIO was used in a school, so I would like to start from a clean disk at some point.
Given you want to back up to CD-RW first, yes this makes sense.
Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of? I plan to save my original disk to the CD-RW before installing OSX, then restore the applications I want after everything is up and running.
The next addition will be larger hard drive, does anybody have suggestions on these? Will any IDE drive work? Large-cheap SCSI drives seem to be hard to come by.
I would back up the Applications to CD-R but I would re-install all the applications I could and only restore those apps that you cannot from the CD-R are two reasons for this. Programs that have been installed on a disk for a while may have picked up some corruption. Some of your applications may have OS X versions that will get installed if you run the installer on an OS X machine.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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