From: "Dan Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:14:29 -0500
From: Will S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ryan of XPFacto fame has at long last released XPFacto 3.0a6 ! It supports installing Panther on Apple 7300-9600 and Friends ( meaning clones based on these models which includes the Umax S900/J700)
I just downloaded 3.0a7 and gave it a try. It won't boot my 10.3 Install CD, in fact I can't even get XPF 2.2.5 to boot my 10.2 install CD, even thought I'm already running 10.2.6?
Reading the "Getting a 7600 to boot" thread on the XPF forums, Ryan says that the target drive should not be initialized using the OS X disk utility. I've got a 36 gig IBM SCSI drive that I partitioned and formatted using OS X, is this preventing the CD from booting? I've told XPF (both 2.2.5 and 3.0a7) to Install OS X to a partition on the 36 gig drive. It copies the files and extensions, and when it re-boots, it tries the CD but then boots into 9.2.2. I know my IDE CD/RW drive is bootable, because I installed 10.2 with it and XPF 2.something.
Do I need to re-partition this drive using OS 9 drive setup? Or will a re-format be enough?
Dan
I would think that a reformat from within OS 9.x should do the trick. It needs the OS 9 drivers on an old world machine. The OSX utilities has a check box to include OS 9 drivers on the drive but so far only one person has said this works. Reports from people seem to say you can install OSX on a drive formated with OSX utilities but it won't boot and run. This may vary with different hardware ( doesn't it always!).
If I understand what your saying the OS X install disk can only be used as an install disk not a boot disk from XPFacto 2.2.5 . Starting with the first XPFacto 3.0a 3 I was able to boot Disk Warrior and Norton System works Cd's using an extra partition on my drive as the helper disk. It need not be a partition with a system on it. ( in fact less likely to cause conflicts if it's not) It seems to install files on the helper disk before booting but there are no files left on the partition after .
I think we need to keep in mind the XPFacto 3.0 is alpha software not even beta! So there are going to be issues. Having said that the alpha versions have all worked fine with OSX 10.2.8 for me. Like I said I can now boot Disk Warrior and Norton System works 3 cd's using XPFacto 3.0a x .
I still have to backup a 30gb drive before I try the Panther install. No way do I want to mess with my nicely running Jaguar ;-) Will S
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