>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Now my (newbie) question is: what's the best/safest way to go from >OS9.1 to OSX? I see some mention of XPostFacto, and the site of >someone named Robert (but no URL in the posts I've seen), and I've >seen that Sonnet has some OSX enabling software (I have a Sonnet 450 >in there). > >Just in case it's important, my video card is a Vision 3D from >MacTell. (hey I got the whole setup on the cheap, and it's used as a >server so I rarely need to look at it directly).
XPostFacto is *definitely* the way to go. Sonnet's software is basically the same thing, execpt they charge $30 for it. I have pretty much the same machine as you - S900 with a Sonnet G4/450 card in it. I actually only got the G4 card about 2 weeks ago, and ran OS X on the original 200 mhz 604e CPU! It was slow, but useable enough to check out X. You need to check to see if that video card is even supported by X, whether in an S900 or not. The list of officially supported video cards is a pretty small one. I have an ix3D Ultimate rez card with 8 megs of RAM in slot 1, and it works fine. That's another thing, your video card needs to be in one of the top 2 slots to have a chance of working with OS X. Also you need plenty of RAM - I have 560 megs, but 256 is a good minimum. The more the better. I run OS 10.1.4 basically all the time now, and rarely boot back into 9.1. The last time I needed 9.1 was to install the G4 card and software! Dan _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
