on 4/17/02 1:26 PM, James Thrasher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To install X you need a control panel application called XPostFacto.
> You can find it in the OS X section on OWC's site.
> http://www.macsales.com
>
> The app works well, but you must leave 9.1 on your computer in case you
> have problems. 9.2 doesn't work well on old world machines. It takes
> alot of patching and editing. Use XPostFacto to prep the disk for
> install and then to boot to the OS X cd. Next just go through the
> normal installation procedures from the OS X disk. Reboot and you
> should be in OS X. If not or you wind up back at 9.1, use the
> XPostFacto to reboot into OS X. You can't use the startup disk control
> panel to boot to X, but you can got from X to 9.1 using it.
>
> As a side note I'm quite happy with the performance of OS X on my 7500
> G4/450 Powerforce upgrade with 512 ram. I just hope they hurry up and
> make a patch or upgrade for my 32 meg ATI 7000 Radeon. This 2 megs of
> onboard video ram is killing me!
>
> James
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 01:17 PM, Wilton H. Shaw wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I finally decided to attempt to install OS X on my PowerMac 8500,
>> which
>> now has OS 9.1. I inserted OS X disc. I clicked on the utilities icon
>> and
>> then the startup disc icon. This allowed me to select "OS Install CD"
>> and
>> restart. However, when the computer restarted the icon that showed on
>> the
>> screen was split in two pieces and that was that. After waiting a
>> minute I
>> restarted back in OS 9. Did I do something wrong or will my computer not
>> accept OS X?
>> Thanks
>>
>> Wilton Shaw
>>
>>
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Hello,
I tried to install OS X on an external hard drive using XPOSTFACTO
2.2b4. I followed the instructions and an installation seemed to be taking
place. Then the computer restarted as it was supposed to do, but it rebooted
into OS 9.1. So, I did it again and the same thing happened. I found on the
external drive two icons, one called "private" and one called "system".
I read where OSX won't work on a drive formatted by FWB hard disk
Toolkit, so I will try to format it with Apple's drive Setup
Wilton
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