I've had a C600 for 6 years. Today my S900 came in the mail. It
has a Powerlogix Zforce zif card with a Metabox G4 450 processor. 352
MB ram, 2GB SCSI HD, Ultratek/66 IDE controller, 10GB Maxtor IDE HD, 2
Firewire ports, 2 USB ports.
Starting out, the machine wouldn't turn on the monitor. After
reseating the Radeon video card the monitor came up. It kept giving me
error 10 & 11 bus errors when I tried to start it up. After a couple of
hours of wrestling with it, it occurred to me to check the dip switches
on the processor. (Okay, I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack when it
comes to computers) Sure enough, they were set wrong. After that the
machine fired right up.
I have no experience whatsoever with OS 10. This machine is
supposed to have Jaguar on the Maxtor hard drive. On bootup I get a
message telling me that the Maxtor drive is unrecognizable, and would I
like to initialize it's 7.7 gigs? I didn't do that (yet). I let the
machine come on up. Sure enough, there is the Maxtor drive on the
desktop labeled OS 10, but is only listed as 1.7 gigs and is blank. So
I search the archives and learn a little about XPostFacto. It is on my
desktop, so I fire it up. It has the OS X restart grayed out and says
that OS X isn't installed.
I have a copy of Jaguar and could try installing it, but there's
some stuff on that drive that I don't want to loose. Is there something
that I'm overlooking? If I do go ahead and install Jaguar, is that a
pretty straight ahead job on the S900, or are there tricks?
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