G3/266: scsi installs os x, ide not??

[Kris Tilford]

The serial message is normal, it's just saying that the serial port it 
identified doesn't work with that extension (it's not supposed to). 
Some extensions produce whole lists of mismatch error, for example, I 
use a Kensington Turbo Mouse trackball and the Kensington extension has 
plugins extensions for all different types of Kensington products. The 
extension sees the Kensington device and tries all the plugins at 
startup, so I see "can't find Kensington USB Optical Mouse" etc. etc. 
for a whole list of things I don't have attached. It's not an error, 
just telling you that you don't have a correct device for that driver. 
I see this every time on both my BeigeG3's. Serial ports are kinda iffy 
in OS X I think, but I think they work? (I don't use them).

As for your inability to install to ATA, the BeigeG3's are really 
difficult to install using XPF. Almost any method to circumvent a 
direct installation is preferable. Since you already have 10.3 on the 
SCSI a simple solution is to clone that drive over to the ATA. If you 
could use a straight duplicate of the SCSI drive the simplest way is to 
use Disk Utility to Restore the SCSI drive as Source over to the ATA 
drive as Target. You'll get a true clone. You can later delete unneeded 
files if necessary.

You can also copy selected files individually using Carbon Copy Cloner. 
It's more complicated to use than a simple Restore, but is very useful 
also.

If you need to do a clean install onto the ATA drive there is a trick 
that can help. The installer CD will run when NOT booted from it, but 
merely running under 10.3. So the trick is to boot the SCSI 10.3 System 
and mount the install CD. In Finder columns view of the CD navigate to 
System>Installation>Packages>OSInstall.mpkg and double-click this 
package. The normal OS X installer will run and you simply select the 
ATA drive as the target. You might want to select the "custom" 
installation an just do the bare minimum to avoid the extra 
applications & print drivers on disc's #2 & #3 so you won't have to 
swap CD's.  The extra app.s & drivers can all be added separately the 
same way by simply booting into OS X and clicking the app. or driver 
package you wish to install. When the installation is finished it it 
won't reboot since it's on a target drive, it will simply say "close". 
Now use XPF to add the XPF extensions and boot your new drive (you'll 
get the setup program on first boot). This is much easier than actually 
booting the installation CD using XPF.

Good luck! Kris Tilford
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