OS X install problems on Beige G3

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Good evening,
I have recently acquired a beige g3 that has the following specs:
266Mhz processor
192 MB ram
4.2GB 68pin scsi HD

I can boot up off the os x install cd and have already erased it with the disk utility to hfs+ format. My problem is it seems to hang on the step "Preparing disk". I'm pretty sure that it is the original HD and my 9.2.2 install worked ok. Any suggestions?

I have removed all but the 68pin scsi pci cards as this is the one that the HD is connected to.

Another thing I shall note is if I open the log file, the step it is hanging on is "Writing extra partition info to partition 8."

Any help is appreciated

[Jim Miller]

In order to get X on my beige G3, I had to pull all non original cards out of the machine. Only the cpu upgrade stayed in. If I left the usb, ati video card, or the firewire card in the machine would hang up in the middle of installation. After the software was installed, I reinstalled the cards and everything has been golden for two years of use. Good Luck.

Very Respectfully,
Jim Miller

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I have already pulled all the cards but the scsi card but kinda need that because the hard drive is scsi 2 and the board is scsi 1. I am also pretty sure that this was an original card.
... Hmm think a granite 68 -50 pin adapter woudl work? on the built in scsi bus?

[Jim Miller]

I would give it a shot. I experienced a weekend of hell trying to originally get X on my machine. An electrical engineer at work suggested pulling all the cards as he had seen this in the windows world where he worked. The detail he went into was way over my head, but I know that when I pulled all of the cards I had success. Up to this point, the software would get very close to being installed, then the error messages would pop up. As I recall, the whole process also seemed much faster after the cards were pulled.

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I tried removing even the apple scsi 2 card that the HD was attached to and used the on board scsi 1 controller with the granite adapter with no dice.
I even detached everything but the cd rom and hd and still had no luck.

Next things I am going to try is updating the firmware but I dont think this will help too much. Any more suggestion? I was also wondering if your HD is scsi 1 or 2 and if it is attached to a card or not.

Thanks

[Jim Miller]

Unfortunately,

My hard drive was ata as I thought all beige G 3 were? I guess that I am out of my ball park here, good luck.

Very Respectfully,
Jim Miller

[GraphicUmp]

Try XPostFacto: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/...PostFacto.html

It can help install OS X on supported Macs that have troubles with the install as well as unsupported Macs.

Good luck. My beige G3/300 had an ATA hard drive like Jim Miller's, so I can't help you with that.

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Yea, actually I just tried xPostFacto and the clone utility. The clone utility gets me to boot off osx on the HD however at the apple the screen becomes static-ish and freezes.
As for xPostFacto, It boots off the hard drive and even gets to the installer however after a few clicks on the continue button, the screen goes black stating the installer quit and that I need to restart. x.x

Perhaps I will try reading the steps on making a bootable cd-rom except use the hard drive...