a few snips takenFrom: dan_A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:45:29 -0500 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.
Whatever did this also gave me a very hard time, doing the same thing for a while when I attempted to restart from 9.2.2 onto an external drive containing 10.2.6, which I had used successfully for a lot of months. The internal ATA drive that I installed Panther on had been my main drive using 10.2.8 for quite a while. Somehow I overcame the problem with Jaguar on the external and I'm running from there. I tried to install the 2nd Panther install disc but all the Applications that I had in the folder were newer than what was on the disc and it wouldn't install. In this state, it doesn't matter anyway.
I tried to restart different ways-with and without the L-cache on in XpostFacto, also changing the throttle. But I'm not getting anywhere.
dan_A
It sounds like you installed Panther on top of Jaguar. Perhaps not a good idea. If you need to use the drive/ partition Jaguar is on do backups of stuff you want to keep and erase and format the drive in OS 9.x ( doing this in OSX will not work correctly on our old machines). If for any reason you think you need to use the throttle go ahead and go all the way to 25. It only affects booting the cpu speeds backup as soon as booting is done. After you've installed and things are working you can check out different throttle settings for booting. I wouldn't use the L2 cache software for installing too many people have reported problems with it. My J700/S900 Umax crashes with it. Likely also depends on which cpu you are using. I recommend Powerlogix's Cache Control X software to all Umax machine users and Apple 9500 & 9600 machines with soldiered on motherboard L 2 cache. The reason being it is the only software which lets you disable the soldiered on L2 cache. It's not needed for installing the OS.
Sometimes things just go wrong with an install for reasons unknown. I've found that if things are not working after an install of OSX sometimes it's best to start over and do another install. It took me three tries with Panther. The first time it froze rather then restart and the second disk wasn't installed. The second time things went better but somethings just didn't work right. I also found that disk two is extras like iMovie etc that can be added later if needed or wanted. The main OS install is all on disk 1. You can save a lot of disk space by doing custom install and not installing tons of unneeded printer drivers and languages that most of us won't use. I have also found that any install of OSX leaves your hard drive way fragmented. While it's true OSX/Unix isn't as picky about the drive becoming fragmented during use. It doesn't like being that way with the OS right from the start. So Disk Warrior right after the install then Speed disk from Nortons and away you go. Everyone should have Disk Warrior IMHO.
Best of luck Will S
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