GeoMoon5
I'm Spartacus!
Okay, first my computer specs, and then the problem.
*I have a G3 beige Mac, logic board revision 1, 266MHZ processor, 6MB Video RAM, 416MB system RAM, 120GB hard drive, OS 9.2.2. (I also have 2 seperate 6Gig drives at my disposel)
*Here's what happens when I try doing a clean install of Panther (10.3) using xpostfacto and the CD/DVD drive from a G5. Note that the DVD drive works fine when installing OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.2. Also note that when trying to install with OS 10.2 already on the partition, things get real ugly...
Anyway, I launch xpostfacto, select a drive, and then tell it to install OS 10.3 on the selected drive. Xpostfacto installs the extensions and proceeds to restart the computer. Then the restarted G3 shows "verbose mode" for a while and then goes to the blue install screen.
(So far so good). I pick the language I want "English" and the install process proceeds to the next window, saying that its reading the packages, and an inert text says welcome to OS X install, we hope you like us, or some such thing.
Then the bad thing happens. The installer goes to a contingency window that says "Bundled Software cannot be installed on this computer." After that, the computer steadily goes down hill to the point where it would just make a sound of breaking glass and not start up. I've gotten all that taken care of now and Have OS 9.2.2 on one partition and OS 10.2 on another working quite well.
Is OS 10.3 just never going to happen? Can I just replace the ROM from a newer G3 to make it work? How is it that people whoes computers have a G3 upgrade can get xpostfacto to install and run OS 10.3 and my real G3 won't even let it install?
My primary question is: Has anyone else out there with a computer just like mine gotten OS 10.3 or higher to run or even fully install? HOW?
Thanks in advance for reading this far and for any help. I just really want to get 10.3 working so I can use QuickTime 7...
*I have a G3 beige Mac, logic board revision 1, 266MHZ processor, 6MB Video RAM, 416MB system RAM, 120GB hard drive, OS 9.2.2. (I also have 2 seperate 6Gig drives at my disposel)
*Here's what happens when I try doing a clean install of Panther (10.3) using xpostfacto and the CD/DVD drive from a G5. Note that the DVD drive works fine when installing OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.2. Also note that when trying to install with OS 10.2 already on the partition, things get real ugly...
Anyway, I launch xpostfacto, select a drive, and then tell it to install OS 10.3 on the selected drive. Xpostfacto installs the extensions and proceeds to restart the computer. Then the restarted G3 shows "verbose mode" for a while and then goes to the blue install screen.
(So far so good). I pick the language I want "English" and the install process proceeds to the next window, saying that its reading the packages, and an inert text says welcome to OS X install, we hope you like us, or some such thing.
Then the bad thing happens. The installer goes to a contingency window that says "Bundled Software cannot be installed on this computer." After that, the computer steadily goes down hill to the point where it would just make a sound of breaking glass and not start up. I've gotten all that taken care of now and Have OS 9.2.2 on one partition and OS 10.2 on another working quite well.
Is OS 10.3 just never going to happen? Can I just replace the ROM from a newer G3 to make it work? How is it that people whoes computers have a G3 upgrade can get xpostfacto to install and run OS 10.3 and my real G3 won't even let it install?
My primary question is: Has anyone else out there with a computer just like mine gotten OS 10.3 or higher to run or even fully install? HOW?
Thanks in advance for reading this far and for any help. I just really want to get 10.3 working so I can use QuickTime 7...