Re: OS X & Beige G3

Beige G3 models can run OS X, but they are not officially supported
under 10.2-10.3. There is a utility called XpostFacto that bootstraps
10.2-10.3 on to these machines, but you are in unsupported territory.
10.1 is officially supported, but wobbly - thus the class action suit
and settlement from Apple.

On the beige G3, OS X (10.0-10.1) must be installed on the first 8 gig
of the drive. So you need to partition the drive, with the first (OS
X) partition no larger than 8 gig.

See;
http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?
page=XPostFacto.html

Note from personal experience: the beige G3 will work with OS X, but
depending on your RAM and peripherals or PCI cards installed, it may
not be pretty. I would be scrupulous about backing up important data.
Periodically my beige G3 would kernel panic under 10.1, return a "keys
out of order" error that rendered the drive unmountable and even
DiskWarrior couldn't recover the drive. Only a reformat and clean
install would fix it. Then, the problem would happen again. After a
few iterations, I gave up. Your experience may be better, and there
are happy beige G3 users out there with OS X, but be on guard.

Good luck!

Glenn

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Glenn D. Tiffert
tiffert@post.harvard.edu

On Mar 22, 2005, at 12:49 PM, G.L Robertson wrote:

> Question for the day,
> A beige G3 tower, 10GB (actual 9.5 available) hard drive, 192 MB
> physical ram refuses the base OS X (v. 10.0.3) upgrade. There don't
> seem to be any firmware issues I can find. Yet, the disk image is
> dimmed during the installation process. Any ideas?
> As always,
> Thanks in advance,
> Glenn
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