Mac OS X Installation on Upgraded 8500 |
October, 30, 2002 5:26 PM |
johnorjudy |
XPF rules! I have just finished (over the last several days as time permitted) installing Mac OS X v 10.1 on my 8500 w/ XLR8 500MHz G3 upgrade card. I thought the list would like to know that the entire process, including L2 cache enabling, went entirely without a hitch. I used XPF 2.2.3 and followed instructions to the letter (as best I could understand them). Many times I had no idea what I was doing but it seemed to work just as promised! My machine is fairly simple and that probably helps. I have only two hard drives, both internal SCSI's; one is the original 1GB Quantum at 0:0 and the other is an 18GB Seagate at 0:1. I also have a Zip 100 at 0:2 and an Apple CD-ROM at 0:3. Nothing on the external SCSI. I have a Radeon Mac Edition but did not use it for the install; instead, I put my monitor back on the onboard video output. I intalled in three partitions on the Seagate drive: Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS X, and Classic(9.2.1). Eventually I will get the floppy and the Zip working in X, upgrade to v. 10.1.5 (and 9.2.2), and get back onto the Radeon card. I hope the rest goes as smoothly as it's been to date. |
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RE: Mac OS X Installation on Upgraded 8500 |
November, 09, 2002 4:46 PM |
johnorjudy |
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Additional information provided per mikem17's request-- Not that much more to tell. I have 1GB of RAM in 8-128MB DIMM's all running interleaved. The XLR8 G3 has a 1MB L2 cache running at 250 MHz. Motherboard cache is removed. I use a 17" Philips monitor connected to an ATI Radeon MacEdition (32MB VRAM) video card in PCI slot A1. I also have a 15" Nokia monitor connected to the onboard video (4MB VRAM) but rarely use it. I use an Apple extended keyboard on ADB. My mouse is an MS Optical IntelliMouse connected to an USB to PS/2 adapter which in turn is connected to a GeeThree.com PS/2 to ADB adapter (whew!). I have a pair of cheap speakers connected to the sound out port; nothing on the A/V ports. Nothing on the ethernet nor external SCSI ports. I have an external USR 56K modem on the modem port and an HP Deskjet 660Cse on the printer port. As far as firmware is concerned, I haven't a clue. All I know is that when I use the Software Update control panel in OS 9.1, it tells me everything is hunky dory. If there is somewhere I can look on my system to give you more info on this, please tell me where. As far as the installation goes, I took my 17" monitor off the PCI card and put it on the onboard video port. I then installed Mac OS X v10.0.3 using XPF 2.2.3 on a clean HFS+ partition on the Seagate HD. Next I installed Mac OS 9.0 and updated it to 9.1 on another clean HFS+ partition of the Seagate (this to eventually become Classic). Next I upgraded 10.0.3 to 10.1 using XPF and then using OS X, I updated the Classic partition to OS 9.2.1. Then I set up internet access on OS X, got myself a copy of L2CacheConfig, and activated the L2 cache per instructions. Then I updated from 10.1 to 10.1.5 using Software Update in OS X to download and install. Then I updated the ATI drivers and returned the 17" monitor to the video card. And finally I downloaded Mac OS 9.2.2 update using my separate OS 9.1 partition as I was having trouble getting the complete download in OS X (possibly just coincidentally). I installed this last to my Classic partition from the Classic desktop with extentions off. That's about it though it's probably far more than you ever needed to hear--my apologies. |
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RE: Mac OS X Installation on Upgraded 8500 |
November, 09, 2002 7:43 AM |
mikem17 |
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To gx77: Could you be specific about your hardware, firmware. etc you have as that may give me a clue about audio issues that myself and others seem to have, and yet some folks do not have. Thanks. |
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RE: Mac OS X Installation on Upgraded 8500 |
November, 08, 2002 10:15 AM |
johnorjudy |
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To mikem17: Sorry to say that since I'm essentially tone deaf, I have never worked with the computer audio. |
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RE: Mac OS X Installation on Upgraded 8500 |
November, 08, 2002 7:44 AM |
gx77 |
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I have an 8500 upgraded w/ sonnet g4/400 and i've NEVER had audio problems in X. |
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RE: Mac OS X Installation on Upgraded 8500 |
November, 08, 2002 7:29 AM |
mikem17 |
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If you install 10.2 you will find that you can easily see the PC disks durectly from your MAC using a standard ethernet connection. I currently do this with our 8500 and two PCs runnung Windows 2000. You use the SMB feature in 10.2. Also, how is your sound working? Does the sound (itunes)stop working after some disk IO activity. I have this problem, as do several others. I am curious how your 8500 is acting. Other than sound, our 8500 with a G4 400 and Sonnet ATA 100 card is working just great. |
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RE: Mac OS X Installation on Upgraded 8500 |
November, 08, 2002 1:34 AM |
johnorjudy |
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Update to the previous: everything except the floppy driver install went just as smoothly as I had hoped. Can't figure out what to do with the swim3 floppy driver package that appears on the desktop after the download is finished. Double clicking on it puts an installer icon on the dock but clicking on that doesn't seem to do anything. There's no readme or other instructions to help that I can find. So for now only the floppy is a bust; everything else is way cool. Thanks XPF! PS: I use the floppy to bring docs over from my PC to the Mac. For now I'll just stick to OS 9.1 for this. |