After my B&W was stolen, I maxed out the memory on a Molar (G3 AIO,
266MHz) and put in a larger hard drive. THEN I loaded Panther with
XPostFacto . . .
There's an XPostFacto for X, and it upgraded pretty
slick from Jaguar with that.
It runs beautifully on the Mac, save for a darkened in-built monitor.
Instead of going back to Jaguar, I added a monitor to the monitor-out
port on the Molar (mirroring, of course), and it looks just great.
Wastes a bit of electricity, I suppose, but it works great. I'll add
another video card to the set-up soon, for an added monitor (I believe
two monitors are ALMOST enough; three, like I used with my 7100, is
best).
What I like about Panther is its stability. Rock-solid. And Safari -
it's my favorite browser. I've seen a number of pieces of software that
demand Panther or better. So I have no desire to go a step back and use
Jaguar instead.
XPostFacto was by no means a perfect install. Things happened that
didn't SEEM to make sense. And yet Panther did start up on the first
try. I installed from an eMac Panther install disc that I bought
online, probably OWC. Part of the install may have been confusing, but
I like what I ended up with!
Next step: faster processor and a video card.
I'll be using a Beige G3 Server to run OS 9 and play MP3s with an old
version of iTunes and the MP3s on this OS X Molar. And maybe to control
a SCSI scanner. We'll see. I also have a 7100 I'm going to try to bring
up to G3 soon.
On my list of things to get rid of are numerous PCI Mac stuff,
including two processor upgrades. I'll put them up on my site or on the
swap list soon.
t
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