Thanks Erica and Greg for your replies!
I've heard that upgrading a power computing comp. to run mac OS X is quite expensive so probably.
I would be buying parts off of ebay so that should keep the cost down.
Not sure if you will be able to get XPostFacto to install on the powercenter. I did use Xpostfacto to install X.1 on a Powermac 9500 and then moved the drive over to my PowerTower120 and it ran with 32mb of ram and a 120mhz 604 (albeit really slow). Any newer version of X will require minimum G3 to operate. An old G3-400 would suffice and load up as much ram as possible. Will run fine for a file server. Should be rather cheap on ebay. SCSI is another issue for X. Make sure you have proper termination and are you using the internal/external bus from the mobo or an addon card (Adaptec, orangeMicro, etc)? Addon cards tend to have more problems with X and may require some firmware upgrades or hacks.
I have an orange micro combo firewire/usb pci card installed and a couple of HD's connected via firewire. I also have a Sonnet Tempo HD PCI IDE card. It has a 2.5 inch laptop drive (10GB) on the card (my boot drive) and a large 3.5 inch HD (160GB)and CDRW connected to the single IDE bus. Currently its running OS 9.2.2 with 160MB RAM. I will contact sonnet to see if there will be any issues with the Tempo HD card in OS X.
My hope is too purchase a cheap G3 processor card and an ATI Radeon 7000 card off ebay. If I can do this and get OS X running (may have to up the RAM some more) satisfactorily then it would be much cheaper than buying a new mini. I know the mini has all the latest technology and is small but I can't see spending 500+ dollars just for a computer that will serve as a backup server. Yes this would be the easiest route but the tinkerer in me would like to try the upgrade to the PowerCenter. Has anyone got OS X going on a PowerCenter? What worked and didn't work. Also, does anyone know if my current ADB keyboard and mouse would work under OS X?
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