Why is the Jaguar OSX icon a spotted fur like a leopard skin ??? Shouldn't it be more Jaguar coloured ???
Well, I've been playing with the latest version of the Apple Operating System on my old PCI Mac Clone and I must say its been a treat. When OSX was announced and the information about what it required in terms of hardware was made public I decided to take on the challenge. i really wanted to run Jaguar on the Daystar as originally outfitted but I had no luck with XPostFacto and it almost broke my heart to pull the big 800 Mhz 604e four- nPower processor card out of the Daystar. The Sonnet 800 G4 has been excellent, though. Except for the bigger box and different processor card the Daystar is basically a beefed-up 9500. I had gotten very complacent and familiar with OS8.1, then OS 8.6, and then OS9.1 and saw no need to go further. My wife has a 450 B&W G3 (OS9.1) and my daughter has a DV SE 500 iMac (OS9.1) on the same ethernet and DSL network as my Daystar Genesis MP 800+ 800 G4 (OS 8.6 & OS9.1), 6500/400 G3 (OS 8.6 & OS9.1) and LaserWriter Pro 630, and everything works so nicely together. But I took the plunge alone and went to OSX because I could. And like I said, its been excellent. Confusing and mystifying at times but really excellent. I look back with some fond memories to the time when we bought our first Mac, a much maligned "Box of Delights" Performa 6200CD with a whopping 8 megs of RAM. Sic transit gloria mundi, to coin a phrase. Now THAT was a learning experience !!! Upgrading to this UNIX-based OS is also a learning experience. So far it has been an unalloyed joy. I still have OS9.1 on a SCSI external drive, and find that I use it a lot less than I thought I would. (For the stuff that REALLY needs System 9 I still have a 6500/400. I publish a .PDF Mac User Group newsletter strictly in recycled electrons and Adobe Acrobat does not play well with OSX). The Daystar runs beautifully in OSX and OS9.2 and I have not had a crash or a freeze of ANY kind on any platform since upgrading to Jaguar several weeks ago. Many thanks for the help and information received from other Listers on this LEM PCI Mac List. The encouragement helped and I hope this encourages others to try as well. I have yet to figure out how to make a BOOTABLE OSX CD that I can use for running utilities. Anything that I try to boot off that has a system past OS9.1 cannot abide the non-native G4 Sonnet card. To compensate for this I have installed OSX on two separate places, a 7.8 Meg partition on an 80-meg internal ATA drive and on a 4.5 Gig SCSI internal drive. I can fire up in one to run utilities on the other.Norton SystemWorks does NOT see ANY hard drives in this computer, which RADICALLY reduces its usefulness, to say the least!!! Is it possible to create a sufficiently small startup Jaguar system on ONE CD with the required moxie to fire up a PCI Mac with a Sonnet upgrade card in it ??? Has anybody been able to do this ??? M -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
