PTPro->10.2 Upgrade Issues |
August, 24, 2003 1:45 PM |
brinster |
I have a PTPro 225 and wanted to upgrade it to 9.2 / 10.2. Unfortunately, the PTPro 225 has the m/board that does not work with Sonnet's G4 cards. So I bought a used PTPro 180 with the compatible board, a Sonnet 700, an ATI Radeon 7000 and an Acard PCI IDE card. The PTP 180 came with the stock processor and thanks to Xpostfacto, it was running 9.2 & 10.1. It has two seagate 18GB drives, an ATI Mach64 video card, and a FW/USB PCI card with rear & front panel outlets. Since everything was working in 9.2 and 10.1, I decided to try to upgrade straight to 10.2. No go. Plus I somehow blew up my 10.1 system. I later learned from someone that 10.2 won't run on anything but a G3/G4, so I installed the Sonnet G4 700 card. I deleted the old 10.1, and attempted to reinstall 10.1 so I could then do the 10.2 upgrade. Xpostfacto copies over the files, triggers a reboot, but then nothing. I now have the CDROM on the slower scsi bus (ID 5) and have set the throttle at 24 (someone else recommended that setting). Still no boot from the CDROM after XPF copies the files. Some questions... Do the drives also have to be on the slower bus? I tried but got a broken folder when attempting to startup. I think I know the answer to this, but should I remove the Acard & FW/USB card? Is there a way to copy everything to a partition and use that for the restart part of the installation? I have a Pismo w/10.2; could I use it to install 10.2 to another drive via F/W, and then install that drive in the PTP? As you can see, I need any and all advice I can get! |
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RE: PTPro->10.2 Upgrade Issues |
August, 24, 2003 11:11 PM |
powderhaus |
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under the advanced menu in XPF select Verbose mode and try the installation again. it will send a bunch of text on the screen, probably ending with some kind of error, copy some lines before the error and the error and post it here. If you have no video you must select the output device in the advanced menu, if its an ATI card it should be something like ATY... and i would suggest using the ATI Radeon 7000 and not the 64 thing. Yes you should be able to install it on the Pismo then transfer the drive back to the PTP. But if you use the FW drive you will have to use carbon copy cloner during all copies of the system because of invisible files that will not just drag and drop over. then installing XPF extensions on the drive and the BootX it should work. i would also recommend taking all hardware devices out that are not needed for the installations |
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