Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-25 Thread skyking918 

Jun 25, 2011 05:57:11 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:

You have to "install" the XPF extensions onto the newly installed OS X System software because the initial installation is "clean" or "vanilla". The easiest way to do this is boot OS 9.x and use XPF to "Install Everything" onto the newly installed OS X System, then use XPF to select the new System as the startup partition, and reboot. I'd also recommend setting the XPF Options to Input device:keyboard, Output device:monitor(or your Radeon card), and check the "verbose" flag.
Should restart and ask for the 2nd disc. If I were you I'd forget about Panther, and start over with Tiger. Tiger 10.4.11 runs fine, and is faster and MUCH better supported by current applications than Panther.
When I try to boot back into OS 9 (which is on my other drive) after the OS Xinstallation hangs up following the first disc, it hangs at the happy Mac icon. The only way for me to get back to OS 9 is to boot from the OS 9 CD or a Norton Utilities CD.

XPF options are set as you indicate.

Believe me, I'd much rather run Tiger, and that is the goal. But my Tiger install disc is an upgrade version which requires the computer to already have Panther on it.

I'm just completely baffled and frustrated by this problem. I installed and ran Tiger (10.4.11) on this computer, which has a Sonnett G4 500 MHz processor,for months -- years -- without any issues until recently. In fact, it was the most reliable computer I've ever owned. I simply cannot understand why it has gone bad. And now, following this last attempt, my USB card has quit working, even with all the USB extensions loading.

Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX



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Reinstalling OS 10.3 on a Beige G3

2011-06-24 Thread skyking918 


I'm trying to re-install OS X on my Beige G3 using XPostFacto. The hard drive I'm trying to install on is an 8.5 GB SCSI drive which I had previously installed 10.3 on and upgraded to 10.4.11 and ran for months with no problems until lately.

The computer reboots from the DVD drive with no problem, and installation proceeds normally from the first CD. But then the computer will not restart so that installation from CDs 2 and 3 can proceed. What's going on? Have I forgotten or overlooked something? How doI get this computer to complete the installation process?

Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX



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Beige G3 Woes

2011-06-06 Thread skyking918 


This probably belongs on the unsupported OS X group, but as I cannot get to it at the moment, I'm requesting help here.

My Beige G3 has been relatively trouble-free until today. It has a Sonnet G4 500 Mhz processor and 768 MB of RAM, and, thanks to XPost Facto,has been running OS 10.4.11with a Radeon 9200 graphics card. I have OS 10.4.11 on one hard drive and OS 9.2.2 on another. This configuration has worked sinhceI first installed OS 10.2 about five years ago.

Today when I tried to download a folder from my wife's USB flash drive, all hell broke loose (she has a new HP PC running Windows 7, whichI am using to send this email). Upon plugging the flash drive into my Mac, iPhoto opened in spite of my using the 'Cancel' command. After downloading the folder successfully, I tried to quit iPhoto, but it wouldn't quit, even using the "Force Quit" command (it disappeared from the desktop, but the icon and active arrow remained in the Dock). So I rebooted the computer using the control-command-power key option.

The computer would not re-boot into OS 10, even after several tries (gray screen, spinning clock). SoI tried to re-boot into OS 9, holding down the "Option" key at start-up. No joy. So I dug out the OS 9 install disk, opened the DVD drawer using the old bent paper clip on the open button, and booted from the OS 9 install disk. I did a clean re-install ofOS 9.0 with the intent of reinstalling the OS 9.1, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2 upgrades, but the DVD now would not read my OS 9 upgrade CDs!

So i decided to try to reinstall OS X using XPost Facto.This time the DVD read the disk andI chose the "Archive and Install" option. This worked. Now I downloaded the 10.4.11 combined update from Apple and attempted to install it, but the installer only completed a partial install and gave me a message to drag the installer from the Trash and re-run it. This was not successful; the installer crashed every time I tried to re run it.

Now, when I try to start up in OS X, I get a black screen with the message "DARWIN/BSD (computer name.loc) (CONSOLE) and a log-in prompt. I have no idea what the log-in should be; I've tried ROOT and it asks for a password. I have no password, asI am the only user of this computer. After a couple of tires of this, it goes to the MAC OS X log-in screen, which looks just as it normally did, but any attempt to log-in at this point fails also, and I am taken back to the black console screen.

I can reboot back into OS 9, but can't do anything further in the way of upgrades or reinstalls,as my DVD drive is now not working in OS 9! It is a Pioneer DVR-109AB, according to the label on the drive, but System Profiler reports it as a DVR-127D. It is on the ATA bus.

This computer is essential to my work and it is vital that I get it running again in both OS X and OS 9. I am at my wit's end. Help!

Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX



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