Re: Panther on Beige 233

[Roger Harris]

Andrew, I have installed and tried to install OSX 1.x thru 10.3.2 on 
several beige G3s. Some of them will take the install easy, some are 
difficult and some are imposable. I have one here now that will not take 
OSX 10.2 no matter what I do. The other Beige G3 I have will not do 
Panther but will do 10.2. To put 10.2 on it I have to go totally stock 
266/1mb First 8gig.

One I gave to my daughter will take 10.2 with a G4 450 and a ATA 133 
card, Off brand cheap CD-RW. This Mac also took Panther using 
Xpostfacto. I have had and support several other Beige G3s and find the 
beige G3 to be a pretty flaky Mac for any upgrades. The Beige Macs I 
have had a hand on are the most touchy Macs for booting even in OS 9. 
With hardware upgrades many of them are very bad with booting problems 
from hard drives and CDs.

Roger

Andrew, a Mac Freak wrote:
My internal ATA drive is formatted with Mac OS Extended.  But, again, why
would the "x" symbol appear instead of the apple logo?  If I am just
booting off the CD, why would the format of the HD matter?
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