Success w/ 7500/132 Mhz 604 and 10.1.5 !! |
October, 18, 2002 10:40 AM |
john.feinberg |
I’ve finally succeeded in installing OS X on a 7500 with an Apple 132Mhz 604 processor! I’ve been trying for several months with the various versions of XpostFacto, so I guess the latest version (v2.23) had something inside that did the trick for me. Here is what I did: First I formatted a 4Gb SCSI drive with a 500Mb partition for OS 9 and a 3500 Mb partition for OS X. Next I put in a 10.0.3 installer CD and ran XpostFacto 2.23. I chose the CD to boot and the OS X partition for installing, and then restarted. I ran the 10.0.3 installer, and used the customize feature to shut off all non-required items (such as printer drivers). Once that was done, I held down the option key to reboot back to OS 9. I then put in the OS X 10.1 updater CD, and used XpostFacto to boot from that CD. I then ran the 10.1 installer, and used the customize feature to shut off all extra features other than the BSD subsystem. After a great deal of time, that finished. I had to use the option key again to boot to OS 9, and then used XpostFacto to boot directly from the OS X HD partition. Next I downloaded the security update, which is required to perform any updates beyond 10.1. I had to use the special 10.1 only version of the security update – I had tried the other security update first but that would not launch. Once that was done, I downloaded the 10.1.2 combo updater and ran that. After rebooting, I downloaded the 10.1.3 updater and ran that. After rebooting I ran the 10.1.5 updater. Voila! I’m finished. I installed IE 5.22 and Office X, and both run quite well. The computer is certainly not speedy, not by a long shot. But it works, and the pre-emptive multitasking runs perfectly. I can be copying a large file from the CD, running IE, and have all three office programs running in the background and the computer will still remain responsive and useable. Try that in OS 9! The machine has the 132 Mhz 604 processor and 256Mb of RAM. One somewhat annoying caveat was that the 10.1.5 combo updater would launch. I had tried running the 10.1.5 combo updater once I had 10.1 on the machine, but it kept saying that it would not support my machine configuration. So I tried the incremental updaters, and they worked OK. Security update for OS X 10.1 only http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120136 OS X 10.1.2 combo update http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=122003 OS X 10.1.3 update http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120102 OS X 10.1.5 update http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=122010 OS 9.22 on old Macs: http://os9forever.com/os9helper.html |
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RE: update path |
October, 19, 2002 5:25 AM |
avit |
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I remember having trouble updating a 10.0.4 installer up to 10.1.5. Something about the order in which the Software Update items need to be done on top of 10.1. The crux of it was a Security update which allowed a Software Updater update, which allowed everything else. I can't remember exactly how it went, but I remember doing it a few times over... Glad to hear it went well for you. |
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RE: Success w/ 7500/132 Mhz 604 and 10.1.5 !! |
October, 18, 2002 12:45 PM |
john.feinberg |
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It is a little on the pokey side, but I'd say it's usable. You certainly would not want to do development on this machine, but for just web browsing and MS word it's OK. |
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RE: Success w/ 7500/132 Mhz 604 and 10.1.5 !! |
October, 18, 2002 11:26 AM |
webmaster814 |
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Wow... no offense, I love old macs too, but isnt that unsuable? I know on my 9600/350 it was usable, but still slow as heck. I also installed X on a 9600/200MP and that was unsuable, it took about 1min for chess to launch, in comparision it takes about 1sec on my iBook to launch, and about three seconds on my 9600 G4 800mhz. Any ways, good to hear it is online, and working for you! Michael |
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