OS X on Wallstreet PB?

[Thomas S. England]

Over the holiday weekend I'm thinking of trying to install OS X on a Wallstreet powerbook which is used by my Reason For Living. She's happy using OS 9.2, but there are times when I want to do OS X things on that machine.

From my reading, it seems that one must install on a partitioned drive, suing the first 8 gigs--that is since I still want a full OS 9 partition available.

It's a 233 G3 with 284 MB of ram and a 20 gig drive.

I want to keep most of my existing OS 9 stuff, so I thought I would copy all of it over to an external drive, reformat with partitions, then reinstall.

Has anybody done this? Am I overlooking anything? Is it worth doing?

[bobw]

OS X will be painfully slow on this machine compared to OS 9.x.

You would have to initialize the drive and partition, making the first partition 8GB or smaller and install X on that partition.

[ljocampo]

As bobw said above,  it's going to be slow and let me add very to that.  My advise is don't even bother.  This machine is OS 9 classic.  Trying to make a beetle into a jaguar just doen't make sense.

[krissel]

If you want to install X with the idea of getting to know the system for the future, then do it but you do have to partition. Put X in the first 3-4G and a 9 system in the next G or so. Then use the rest of the drive for files, applications, etc.

That is the division I have for my Wallstreet with 20 G drive. The big difference is that I also have a 466 processor upgrade and 384 RAM. Jag runs fine on the machine but I wouldn't expect too much from something with half the speed.

 

[krissel]

Read these reports to get an idea of what to expect. There are a couple with your specs that were successful but not raving about speed.