Mac Os X 10.0.4 install problems - poss SCSI? |
December, 12, 2002 9:55 PM |
erby_2k |
Ive got a powermac 8500/132 with 64 mb of ram. I know its no powerhouse but I was wondering if I could install X. I am planning to get ram and cpu but for the time being i was wanting to just mess around with X(i know it will run horribly slow or if at all). I have 9.1 currently. I ran post facto and installed what it needed it then restarted...I saw the os X background screen then it went straight into darwin? or the Unix command line screens..It did some things i saw it mount the cd rom..I saw some 1+1 records in ...records out and 14+14 records in ..records out..did that for a while then just finally kept looping..(close to whats below) IOSCSI SCSI bus reset..recovery attempted.. IOSCSI SCSI bus recovery complete.. and kept looping that for a some times then spit out the 1+1 or other x+x records then ultimately just looped those two lines(or close to it) i tried doing the whole install over and let it go overnight came back in the morning and was still looping those two lines..?? any ideas..ive got a scsi cdrom and scsi hd but all default apple..are there any extra settings i should consider? Thanks -ben |
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RE: Mac Os X 10.0.4 install problems - poss SCSI? |
December, 14, 2002 9:42 PM |
erby_2k |
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thanks for the tip..:) ive been pulling my hair out..haha |
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RE: Mac Os X 10.0.4 install problems - poss SCSI? |
December, 13, 2002 11:03 PM |
tippingj |
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Yuppers. Welcome to the club. 10.0.4 is crap. I wouldn't use it. It is flawed, SLOW, suffers MASS finder problems, and also, the SCSI just doesn't work properly. I suggest 10.1 or 10.1.5 (you need 10.1 before you can update to .5). 10.1 will boot from the SCSI CDRoms just fine, and will mount the SCSI disks JUST FINE. I've been running 10.1 for over a week now- no problems. The only thing that I noticed is that if you boot and you have a OS X startup CD in the drive, the SCSI won't mount into the desktop. Bizzare. Restart and remove the CD, and vola. Works again. Doesn't seem to do this with anything that isn't OS X bootable (eg- OS 9.1 CD, games, apps, etc). 10.1 is far supirior to 10.0.4 as far as I am concerned. I came from 10.0.4 in a matter of fact- before I relised 10.1 was the way to go. I suggest a clean install of 10.1. Upgrading from 10.0.4 is a nono. I had the excate same problem as you. As I say above- 10.1 works just fine (XPostFacto driver bug?). If you can believe it or not- 10.1 will work usably fast. Granted animations will look like crap, but still, the GUI will be responsive enough to use. I've been using 10.1 on a Powerbase 200mhz 603e machine with 80mb RAM, nothing else specail, and everything works just great. Granted a G3 would make it even more better.. But anyhow. Try and track down a copy of 10.1. It will save you trouble in the future- stick with 10.1 untill XPostFacto & Apple "settle down" and start to perfect the operation of the OS and XPF installation (10.2 is a little hyper with new hardware- no 603e/604 support, and many bugs are being found and fixed). Otherwise. Good luck with 10.0.4, the only way around that is to copy the CD to the hard drive on a seperate partition using Apple Software Restore and boot from the drive itself without the CD. 10.1 will solve that. |
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