installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 10, 2003 9:42 AM |
alanmagnus |
I am having problems installing os 10.0 on my 8500/150 at 160mb of ram.When I use the orignal os x installer disc and it takes me into the installer programme it does not see my seagate hard drive which has been partioned as follows: the first is 7gb and that's for the installation of os x and the second is igb and has os9.1. It only sees the installer and that's when I use xpostfacto 2.25.What must I do. |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 13, 2003 3:09 PM |
jseibyl |
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That sounds like you are on the on board video controller, Is your monitor an Apple native??? I ran into the same prob when I first did this and just used a standard VGA to complete the install with an adapter (apple 15 pin to VGA). The Apple native monitors send back a "sence code" to the video system that tells it what the best res is, in your case sounds like 640 x 480. It should be at least 800 x 600 to hit the button, and if you use a generic vga monitor, it should help. At least that is what worked for me.... Do you have a card that you know will work??? (ie Radeon??) That is another solution..... Jim |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 13, 2003 2:46 PM |
alanmagnus |
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I finally got it installed this morning without a hitch after following your advise ie moving the hard drive from the fast scsi to the slow and then everything went well.The only problem I am now facing is when I restart in osx and it takes me into the assistance setup the screen gets large and I can't see the continue button so I am stuck right there,later when I get home I will see what I can do about it.Thanks for all the help. |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 13, 2003 7:02 AM |
jseibyl |
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DID you do a "low level" format?? |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 13, 2003 1:10 AM |
camperslo |
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From the FAQ here "Many users have reported problems with drives formatted with FWB's Hard Disk ToolKit, as well as with LaCie's tools." Also from the FAQ "Apple's Drive Setup installs drivers compatible with Mac OS X, as does Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools." Later versions of OS X are better than 10.0 in many ways and many apps now require a later version. If you have a G3 or later installed, you can use 10.2. I think you'll find many people and dealers selling 10.2 deeply discounted since 10.3 is about to ship. |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 12, 2003 1:22 PM |
alanmagnus |
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I have tried what you say I should do and it still is not recognising the hard drive even though so9.1 is installed on it.Any other suggestion.By the way when I first used a burnt copy of the installation it recggnised both partioned drives and when I tried to install on the selected one it was not installing the system,I even gave it up to 2 hours and the rainbow cursor only kept on spinning,I don't know what else to do. |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 11, 2003 12:41 PM |
jseibyl |
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cool...good luck |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 10, 2003 5:54 PM |
alanmagnus |
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The First I got it I used fwb and formatted the drive.Iam going to reformat the drive tonite and then try the installation again and sees what happens .will let you know tomorrow the result. Thanks. |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 10, 2003 10:59 AM |
jseibyl |
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BTW, if that drive is on a PCI card?? |
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RE: installing os 10.0 on 8500 |
October, 10, 2003 10:58 AM |
jseibyl |
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Is that drive formatted in native apple drive settup, or another drive utility like FWB???? Is that drive on the main scsi bus?? Which one?? You could try putting it on the slower internal connector, installing, then moving the connector on the logic board back. |