XPF and PB 3400 |
December, 09, 2002 10:18 AM |
ctshotton |
Both the current XPostFacto and older versions (like "Unsupported Utility X") fail to launch on my PowerBook 3400 under MacOS 9.1. Is there a minimum amount of RAM required to launch/install OS X? Any ideas on what else might be wrong if RAM limitations aren't the issue? |
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RE: XPF and PB 3400 |
December, 10, 2002 9:57 PM |
ctshotton |
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When I launch the latest XPF (or an older copy of Unsupported Utility X) on the 3400, the launching app rect zooms open, menu bar goes white, then everything quits back to the Finder. This is being run on a totally virgin install of Mac OS 9.1. |
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RE: XPF and PB 3400 |
December, 10, 2002 9:29 PM |
OSXGuru |
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XPostFacto should launch OK in 48 MB of RAM. What exactly happens when you try to launch it? It sounds like you're not getting an error message of any kind? The networking should work OK, and a pure Darwin install should be fine as well (but not Darwin 6, as it has the same issue as 10.2). I believe that serial support should work, but I can't remember whether I've tested that or not. |
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RE: XPF and PB 3400 |
December, 10, 2002 1:48 PM |
ctshotton |
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The machine currently only has 48M of RAM (far to little to run OS X in any useful fashion, I know.) I'm upgrading the 3400 to have 144M of RAM and just wanted to make sure that XPostFacto was refusing to run because of the limited amount of RAM and not some other problem. (It'd be nice if it reported that as the problem if it's the case!) This model has the built-in modem and ethernet. I hadn't heard of an ethernet-only version of the 3400. I assume networking should work as expected? I'm also curious if anyone has tried installing just Darwin on a 3400 using XPF? My intent is to use this box as a home automation platform and I could really care less about the OS X eye candy. Serial support is about all I care about. Thanks, C. |
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RE: XPF and PB 3400 |
December, 10, 2002 7:21 AM |
nick.ashton |
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How much RAM do you have? Have you tried booting with just a base set of extensions in case it's a conflict? I have installed OS 10.1.x on a PB3400 with 80Mb RAM. OS 10.2 is not compatible with 603 processors at the moment. There is also a problem with Ethernet if you have the "Ethernet only" version as opposed to the one with built-in modem as well. |