You have to "install" the XPF extensions onto the newly installed OS X
System software because the initial installation is "clean" or
"vanilla". The easiest way to do this is boot OS 9.x and use XPF to
"Install Everything" onto the newly installed OS X System, then use
XPF to select the new System as the startup partition, and reboot. I'd
also recommend setting the XPF Options to Input device:keyboard,
Output device:monitor(or your Radeon card), and check the "verbose"
flag.
Should restart and ask for the 2nd disc. If I were you I'd forget
about Panther, and start over with Tiger. Tiger 10.4.11 runs fine, and
is faster and MUCH better supported by current applications than
Panther.
When I try to boot back into OS 9 (which is on my other drive) after the OS X installation hangs up following the first disc, it hangs at the happy Mac icon. The only way for me to get back to OS 9 is to boot from the OS 9 CD or a Norton Utilities CD.
XPF options are set as you indicate.
Believe me, I'd much rather run Tiger, and that is the goal. But my Tiger install disc is an upgrade version which requires the computer to already have Panther on it.
I'm just completely baffled and frustrated by this problem. I installed and ran Tiger (10.4.11) on this computer, which has a Sonnett G4 500 MHz processor, for months -- years -- without any issues until recently. In fact, it was the most reliable computer I've ever owned. I simply cannot understand why it has gone bad. And now, following this last attempt, my USB card has quit working, even with all the USB extensions loading.
Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX
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