On 12/25/2002 23:02, Lee Larson wrote >On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 09:45 PM, Diane Stinnett wrote: > [snip...] > >I installed Jaguar on a Rev B machine last week. To get it to install >correctly I had to unplug all the third party devices -- keyboard and >Zip drive. I also reset the machine's PRAM by pressing the hardware >reset button on the mainboard, although I don't know whether that was >necessary.
... and I just installed Jaguar on a Rev A machine last week. It had a third party USB card in it w/o anything attached, and the installation went smoothly (if a bit slow). I didn't think to reset the PRAM, but I guess this wasn't necessary. > >After the install, it seems to be working all right, except that the >hard drive doesn't go to sleep. Same thing with the Rev A. > >The G3/266 is no speed demon with Jaguar. Mine's a G3/266 also, and I can concur, though Jaguar is way faster than I expected (I was expecting it to be really, really pokey). As my machine is 4 1/2 years old and has only 224 MB of RAM, I'm happy enough. I've heard of folks (Allan?) who have G3s with G4 upgrades who are plenty happy (though a G4 upgrade isn't all that cheap). Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28. For more information about the LCS, go to <http://www.kymac.org>.
