Ben, I installed Panther on an identical computer that I was giving to a friend. It worked perfectly, but I did erase the hard drive and I also increased the memory for with the 384 meg of ram it didn't do well, but with 512 it surprised me and has been going for several months with no problems.
John R. On May 24, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Ben Hershberg wrote: > I'm trying to install Panther on my daughter's iMac G3 450 mhz slot > loading computer. I'm getting an error message now that says the > extension "system/library/extensions/symfs.kext" isn't installed > properly and should be reinstalled. I've tried reinstalling the second > install CD, thinking the extension was there, but the error message > didn't go away. when I tried reinstalling the first reinstall CD the > computer said I couldn't reinstall it because I had updated the > operating system. It said I could erase the hard drive and reinstall > the entire operating system. Any suggestions? I'd like to avoid wiping > out the hard drive if there is a way to do so. Thanks--Ben Zion > Hershberg > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
