FYI - installing Jaguar on a beige G3

[kbeartx]

'Souped up' beige G3 DT (400 MHz ZIF, 768MB RAM, 80GB  WD 7200 RPM & 40GB IBM 5400 RPM HDs), previously running OS 9.2.2 and 10.1.5, each installed in its own 8GB partition, those two partitions being the first 8GBs of the two HDs.

When I initially ran the Jag installer, it refused to recognize ANY of the existing partitions as 'legal' - saying that NONE of them were w/in the first 8GB (even though the 10.1.5 installer had no prob w/ the partitions the way they were!), so I copied about 20GB of data from the IBM to the WD and reformatted / repartitioned the IBM with a 7.45GB partition w/in the first 8GB.  THEN, the Jag installer considered that volume 'kosher', but the install failed w/o any info about why.

My next attempt was to d/l and use Ryan Rempel's XPostFacto, but that, too, failed with a screenful of UNIX gobbledeygook.

Throughout this whole adventure, 9.2.2 has continued to boot and work like a charm (God, I LOVE Macs!) so I've always been just a restart away from my 'usual' functionality - which has made ALL the difference because I have not been able to 'plug away' at this prob in any kind of concentrated way, only attack it a little here and there as the week has progressed.

And finally, brought to you by the Third Time's the Charm Department, I reinstalled 10.1 on my freshly formatted, definitely-smaller-than-8GB partition, ran the Jag installer to upgrade that (w/o a glitch), then d/l'd and installed the 10.2.6 Combo Updater (also smooth as silk!).

So I'm a very Happy Mac Camper this weekend!

But I'm warning y'all - now that I'm using the Big Cat, I'm running into Some Questions ... and you know what happens when I can't figure out something about my Mac, dontcha?

****I post a thread here at Tee Ess!****

As a fatter of mact, I'm gonna go do that right now....

TIA, to all those who've helped w/ my past probs (and future ones too)!

 - kbeartx  

[Bernie]

  Hmm, Maybe I'll do Dat!    

[george]

Hi KB, In another thread I have been trying to do as you have done,I got past the stage of finally getting the  correct size of partition (7.95mb).The next problem was that using my OS X installation disks from my G4 the istallation would always stop somewhere during the writing of files, I thought this cannot be correct I''ll  try something different.
I then put the new Maxtor IDE 30gig into the G4 and reformatted (single partition) and installed basic OS X, plain sailing up till then, then put Maxtor back into G3 along scsi 4gig OS 9.2.2 and fires up.............sad to say 9.2.2 came up alright but no mention on the desktop of the Maxtor.
Yet in system profiler there is the Maxtor as large as life!
Do I now have to  go back to the G4 and re-partition into two partitions and start again?
George.
Puleese help Kbeartx.  
   

[kelly]

George. You can't just ignore that less than 8 Gig limit.  

You had it right at first. Re-Partition it again.

Make sure it is less than 7.5 or whatever the limit seemes to be.

http://new.lowendmac.com/ppc/g3b.shtml

Make sure it is HFS+. Install the OS 9 Drivers while you're at it.

Make sure the Maxtor is set to Master not Slave.

Make sure the CD-ROM is Master not Slave.

I'd pull the SCSI Drives while trying to Install OS X.

I'd try to use the original Apple RAM if you can figure out which it is.

I'd pull any added Video or PCI Cards.

I'd look into XPost Facto.

http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/

I'd probably run OS 9.x on it.