Re: [SM] Panther problem

[Gary Gorbet]

Hi List-

Yesterday I installed Panther (upgraded from 10.2.8). I was 
successful with the first disc- I used XpostFacto, which is really 
cleverly improved, and two things happened. On the restart, at the 
conclusion of the install I got hung up with the gray screen w/gray 
apple. I tried to restart a couple of times and then figured the 
start up might just want a lot of time...I left it for a couple of 
hours. When I came back it was still hung.
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Dan,

Maybe I do not understand exactly what happened to you, but if it was 
similar to my first attempt at putting Panther on an old world Mac, I 
know at least one potential misstep and how to correct it. When I 
finished with the first CD and was prompted to restart, I assumed it 
would simply do so. But what you have to do at that point is restart 
and hold down the <option> key so that you start up in OS 9. Then you 
tell XPostFacto you want to start up from the volume you've just 
(partially) installed 10.3 on. If you can successfully boot up on 
that disk, you will be prompted to load the second CD (and, later, 
possibly the third one). For Panther, people have had success with 
one of the XPostFacto version 3's (not 2).
The latest - 3a15 - is at:

http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto3.html

To be clear:  when you first installed, you told XPostFacto you were 
booting from an install CD with a destination of the internal ATA. 
Now what you need to do is say you are booting from the ATA. The CD 
doesn't even have to be loaded. You can do that after you've 
successfully booted. Hope this helps.

Gary G

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