Power Tower Pro now running OS X |
February, 25, 2003 4:44 PM |
lexxel |
Success! Last night I was able to install X on my powercomputing powertowerpro. Recall I was having issues with my old apple cdrom, and then with the drives erroring. So, took out the cdrom (tower also has a cdrw), and moved all the hard drives to the external scsi bus. Then I also took out the 3DFX voodoo video card, replacing it with an ATI RAGE something or other with 8 megs ram (not the greatest card, but it does have tv out). This allowed me to get up to the X installer, but then it kept quitting. So, I thought better remove the pci usb card. Did that, and the X installer worked great! Took a bit longer than I thought to install, but worked just fine. Along with the ATI video card I also picked up a 4 gig scsi drive, allowing me to put X entirely on the 9 gig. And the card and extra drive only cost $15 at the local mac store (nicer price than I anticipated). Now I have to put the hard drives back on the internal bus, and reinstall the usb card (and maybe the voodoo video for use in 9, this ATI is a bit slower). I have some other q's, but i'll post those in another thread. Just thought I'd share my experience of getting X installed on the powertowerpro. |
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RE: Power Tower Pro now running OS X |
February, 25, 2003 6:35 PM |
marcush |
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I have a Power Tower Pro that I've been running OSX on also. You may find that if you move the drives back to the internal bus that you can no longer cold boot into OSX, and that you will have to use XpostFacto to get back to OSX from OS9 after every shutdown. I ran into this when I first installed 10.1 almost 2 years ago. You could get around this with a SCSI card but my solution was just to migrate to all IDE drives. |
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