Original PB G3, XPF V 2.2.4, OS 10.1 |
October, 24, 2002 8:08 PM |
mscahill |
Hey everybody out there, I've wandered through the tech support forums, and tried a bunch of things, but I'm pulling my hair out here. Everything goes as normal, the machine has 160 MB RAM, the original 5GB drive, no cards installed (tried that a while back and BOOM) And just not to be fruitless, reformatted the drive and repartitioned it, OS 9.1 on one partion at 1 or so GB, A partition set up for os 10 at 3.66 GB, and a third partition for junk (the cache files etc. Similar to how my desktop is set up (G4 450). The irony is that os 10.1 ran and ran well when it was on the same partion with os 9.1 and there were no partions, for about a week, then got weird. Decided to start clean and partition the drive. From this point forward, it will not install. I can boot in os 9.1, load the program, then restart, but the powerbook just cycles, by that I mean a constant restart cycle, (chime and all) . There was some text on the screen at one point in time I caught, about the partion numbers being wrong? Does this imply that OS X needs to install on the 0 partition?? Completely lost and frustrated. I was VERY happy with how well the good ol' state of the art powerbook (or so I was told at time of purchase in December of 98) worked under os X. But now I'm stuck in os 9.1 again... what a bummer. If anybody out there has any ideas, I'd love to hear em! Thanks Mike |
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RE: Original PB G3, XPF V 2.2.4, OS 10.1 |
October, 29, 2002 9:33 AM |
OSXGuru |
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That should be fine, I think. So I'm not sure what the problem is. I suppose it might be worth trying to install onto the first partition, just to see whether that helps. |
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RE: Original PB G3, XPF V 2.2.4, OS 10.1 |
October, 28, 2002 5:35 PM |
mscahill |
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Hmm... used the apple tools on my 9.0 CD... |
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RE: Original PB G3, XPF V 2.2.4, OS 10.1 |
October, 28, 2002 1:32 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Hmm. I have installed Mac OS X on an external SCSI drive connected to an original Powerbook G3 using several different partitions, and that worked. But I haven't tried it on the internal drive. One question is what software you used to repartition. You need to use either Drive Setup (from 9.x) or Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools. Other formatters can lead to the symptom you describe. |
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