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From: Robert Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 9 March 2006 10:56:56 PM
To: Kerryn Kotz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Panther on B&W G3
OK !
Last thing first: I asked for the birth date as a check against the
model number
and description.
That all checks out OK , and the Mactracker info says your firmware
version should be the right one.
A little advice : Depending on what you wish to do with the Mac , it
can be helpful to
partition the Hard drive so that you can load 9.2.2 on one and OSX on
the other.
This will allow you flexibility to boot from either and you can still
use that same 9.2.2 as the Classic OS
if you wish.
I have hacked about putting OSX on a lot of older stuff and I found it
very difficult to load Panther on a
G3 300 . Jaguar seems to load a lot easier on that speed Mac . I had
no trouble getting Panther on a G3 350., but it was very slow
installing.
It is a known fact that Panther is very picky with Ram to the point
that it will not run on some Ram that
Jaguar is quite happy with.
If you have some Jaguar disks you might try to start from the Jaguar
CD and see how you fare there.
As to Partitioning the Hard drive, you should be able to fit the OSX
Panther into 4.5 Gb with 1.5Gb for the OS9.2 , but you should find
that you are very restricted with what you can do with the Mac .
If you get a bigger Hard Drive then OSX does need to be on the 1st
Partition and the partition AND its INDEX needs to be No bigger than
8Gb. You need to make the partition a bit less than the 8 .
Hope that helps
Bob
On 9 Mar 2006, at 10:11 PM, Kerryn Kotz wrote:
wow you are perceptive through text :P
Okay its a G3 300mhz using a Rev A logic board. I've seen two other
models with faster processors come through my way and panther
installed and ran fine on them, this one seems to be different. I'm
trying to put Panther on its 6 gig HD. It runs 9.2.2 no probs and
like the subject states it's a Blue and White model meaning its USB
and firewire based. Seems like the perfect candidate for
pantherfication :P
its birthday according to the specs on back is 27/2/99
-Christian
On 09/03/2006, at 9:50 PM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 9 Mar 2006, at 9:07 PM, Kerryn Kotz wrote:
Can anyone tell me why my G3 300mhz unit with 256MB RAM doesn't
boot on Mac OS X start up disc or copies on the HD? It just sits
with the Apple Logo and spinning disc thing :P
-Christian
Christian,
It seems like you are a bit frustrated , otherwise you would realise
asking us a question without providing clues is just as good as
asking " How long is a piece of string ? "
Now to your problem :
1. Has this ever run on PANTHER ?
2. Have you tried to boot on OS9xx and with what result ?
3. What version of G3 300 ? Does it have USB or is it Scsi ?
4 What year of manufacture ?
More questions after we get those answered !
Bob
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