Ok. I tried, and it didn't work. :(
I apologize for this long post, but I want to be as clear as possible.
I have a PowerCenter Pro 210 with a Sonnet Tempo 100 IDE controller, and
now a new Radeon 7000 Video Card (which cleared up the problem I wrote
about last week :). My drive setup looks like this:
Tempo:
\__40GB Drive
\___ Kirk 6GB Partition
\__ Spock 34GB Partition
SCSI
\__2GB original Drive
\__ Bones
SCSI
\__3GB additional drive
\__ Scotty
(I know that the original PCP had an "internal" and an "external" scsi
chain, and I'm not sure at the moment which of the chains Bones and Scotty
are on respectively. I _DO_ know that Bones is the original drive that
came with the computer.)
I'm runnning OS 9.1 on Kirk, although I have another OS 9.1 System Folder
on Bones.
What I tried, was to install OS X on Scotty, (freshly formatted with OS
9.1 Drive Setup) using XPostFacto.
I tried to follow the instructions very carefully, but there was a point
that wasn't clear.
-----< From the Instructions >-----
o Insert the Mac OS X Install CD (or Darwin, or Mac OS X Server, as the
case may be)
o Launch XPostFacto
o Select the Install CD as the volume to start up from
o Select the target volume that you want to install Mac OS X to
o Click on the "Install" button
o Sit back and watch the action
XPostFacto will copy some kernel extensions to the target volume. Then it
installs a modified version of BootX that will use these kernel extensions
(along with the standard extensions on the CD). Then it will restart the
computer.
The Mac OS X Installer runs in Mac OS X, so you will be booting into Mac
OS X at this stage. It can take a few minutes, so you need to be a little
patient. It is possible for the installation to fail at this point, either
with an explicit error message, or a rainbow cursor that spins forever, or
by rebooting into Mac OS 9, or just a blank screen. See the
troubleshooting tips below if this happens to you.
-----< From the Instructions >-----
What happened to me is that it rebooted into OS 9 from Kirk.
So my Questions Are:
When XPostFacto runs, and reboots the machine, should I be holding down
the 'c' key to force a CD Boot or is it actually booting from the few
files that XPostFacto copies to the HD first, and then looking at the CD
for the rest of the boot process?
Do I need to boot (OS 9) from the partition that I'm going to install OS X
to? (I wouldn't think so, given the advice I've read about partitioning
them separately)
Do I need to have the XPostFacto executable on the partition that I'm
going to install to?
I know that I had to go back to an older CD ROM driver to use my original
CD-ROM drive in OS 9. Is that not also a problem with OS X?
Could that be my problem here?
Has anyone had success with the Sonnet Installation Software where
XPostFacto didn't work?
Thanks for any insight anyone can provide.
_________
| homas
Thomas A. Compter
Software Engineer
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products
802-657-6103
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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