I can only say I read the same mail and that was how I read it!
Never did find out if the date of the letter was significant or not.
Spaghetti grows on trees you know, kind of thing!!
All the best
Michael ANTHONY
And here is the origional mail fished out!
Subject:
Re: Got OSX (Tiger) running on my starmax!
Date:
Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:57:34 -0800
From:
Terry Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:
"StarMax List" <[email protected]>
To:
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At 12:31 PM -0600 4/1/05, Michael Martin wrote:
>
> to: [email protected]
>
> date: April 1, 2005
>
>Well, I finally did it. I got OSX running on my StarMax. It takes quite
a bit of work, but it can be done.
Hi Michael,
That's great!
>The first thing to do is to upgrade the processor to a G3. The OSX code
requires at least a G3. Now
unfortunately my son's iMac died recently, so I used the G3 from it to
upgrade my Max. A little tricky, but it
was available and I hate to see hardware go unused. I suggest others use
a standard upgrade.
You know your stuff!
How the heck did you do that?
A friend of mine has a couple of dead iMacs (Analogue video boards dead).
>Now the next part is to add memory. OSX likes LOTS of memory. With a
little judicious soldering etc, one
can add a memory bus extender to the Max to increase the memory beyond
the normal limit. So now my
Max has a full gigabyte of memory!
Now THAT is the best news I've ever heard!!
I had been wondering if more memory could be added to that serious deficiency
of the StarMax's.
Could you detail that proceedure with circles and arrows? :-)
The last part was perhaps the cleverest part of all. OSX will not
install normally on non-Apple machines.
So even with all that, OSX would not install on a Max. Now it just so
happens that I had a beta copy of
Tiger installed on my son's iMac for testing purposes. Since his iMac
died, I decided to try an experiment. I
took out the HD with Tiger already on it, and installed the HD on the
Max. Lo and behold, it booted up!
Good trick!
Go to the head of the class.
As for me I'm totally paranoid about my flickering, picture shrinking
and expanding slightly, 17" Apple
Studio Display.
Have you ever known a video card to be at fault?
I took it out and re-seated it yesterday (pressed the cuda for 3 secs.)
Cheers,
Terry
Salt spring Island
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Fran Man wrote:
> I believe that I read from someone on this list that
> they used a friend's G4 to do an intial install of OSX
> on an IDE drive and before doing the first reboot
> after the installation was done, they just turned the
> machine off and pulled the drive and installed it into
> the Starmax. And OSX autodetected everything from
> there.
>
> Not sure if this is true, but it's worth a try.
>
> --- hnk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well, I haven't been able to track down who it was
> > that claimed to be
> > running X on a Starmax, but I checked here:
> >
> http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?
> > page=FAQ.html
> > And it appears that R.R. has some plan to make it
> > work but there's
> > nothing yet-- I'd assumed that whoever made the
> > claim was using Xpost-
> > facto.
> > Howard
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