On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Jeremiah Stevens wrote:
I have a G3 iMac with 10.3.9 on the hard drive. would I be able to swap the hard drive into the Beige G3 without messing anything up, because I know if you do that with an iMac G3 without updating firmware, it will mess up the video driver and render the computer useless.
If you install XPostFacto 4.0 (XPF4) onto the iMac 10.3.9 HD BEFORE transferring it into the Beige G3 there's a good chance it will boot OK in the Beige. XPostFacto 4.0 won't mess up the iMac HD for the iMac either, it's compatible with so-called "new world" Macs also and can be useful to enable Firewire booting on the old B&W's that didn't allow Firewire booting.
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