Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:41:48 -0500 From: "Phillip L. Meza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Help with OSX install?
Hello Listers, I'm trying to install OSX version 10.1 on my Umax S900 and have failed over and over. I can't seem to figure what I'm doing wrong. I'll try to give as much detail as I can...I am presently The message above started a pretty good thread that has died without answers for me. SCSI termination sounded like one probable conclusion, but I did not hear if Phillip ever found his problem and what it was. I felt as if many were not hearing what I heard, which was that using XPostFacto Phillip was never able to get the OS X installer to load on his hard drive, period. I empathize, as I too cannot get XPostFacto to load on my PowerMac 7300. Should be able to. Many answers mis-id'ed the problems as being unable to boot in OS X, when in fact he never got it loaded in order to try to boot. Am I right here Phillip? I have a $200+ PowerMac 7300 (eBay) running OS 9.1 which I have upgraded over 8 months with an XLR8 ZIFCarrier and Newer G4/400/1MB, new RAM to 896MB, an ACARD ATA 100/133, two Maxtor 7200 EIDE HDs (40GB master and 20GB slave), a TDK ATAPI 24/10/40x VeloCD, and added VRAM to 4MB. I have no PCI video cards. To install the ATA HDs and an ATAPI CD burner, I have removed all internal SCSI, both the original Apple 4GB (I think) SCSI HD and CD-ROM. I have encountered no problems running 9.1. But, using XPostFacto, I cannot get OS X to install. Using the ATAPI TDK, I got a broken folder. The TDK had not been bootable with OS 9 CDs, but had played well as a straight CD-ROM with both digital and audio CDs, and burns with Toast 4/5 lite. I had first suspected the OS 9 CDs with the TDK, but now believe the bootability is a drive issue. So I have reinstalled the SCSI CD-ROM. It is bootable with OS 9 CDs. With XPostFacto, it then gives me a happy face and a perpetual rainbow cursor, rotating, but frozen in the upper left corner. Brittany suggested using verbose mode, which I have tried and it freezes at the same point each time (I don't have the verbose data here). Following Dan Knight's UnSupported list, I believe I may have created an internal SCSI bus termination problem for myself by removing the SCSI HD and CD, which perhaps XPostFacto cannot handle. Reading this thread makes me believe that I could install OS X after putting the SCSI HD back in, but I don't want to go there. Before I bought the 40GB, I ran the 20GB ATA with the 4GB SCSI HD. The ATA was obviously much faster, so I moved OS 9.1 to the ATA and made it the boot and primary drive, and semi-retired the SCSI in its installed location, waiting for another good deal on large capacity ATA, recently completed. SOoo I have a quandry!! I think it is a waste to use a drive bay and a 4GB SCSI HD purely as a termination block. I want a full ATA 7300 with OS X running, with my 60 GB fast ATA capacity, and my ATAPI burner running in my final configuration. But I know nothing about internal SCSI termination. What it the proper way? Is there a low-cost internal termination block similar to external SCSI termination blocks, that can be permanently installed at the end of the SCSI ribbon cable? Where can I get such, and what specific part am I looking for? Or can the SCSI ribbon be detached from the motherboard after the SCSI CD is no longer required, resulting in no need for a terminal block? Or perhaps I have another problem here to chase after the SCSI is properly terminated. Thanks in advance!! Steve Seiden -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
