Trouble installing 10.2 on Headless Wallstreet

[arambo]

I have been running os 9.2 on a old Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet) 300mhz that lost its hinges and cables awhile back. It has never had a problem booting up and using an external LCD as its display.

Whenever I try to install OS 10.2.1, it shows the OS X boot up screen and does a lot of cd to hard disk work and then the screen goes black for evermore while it is still doing intall work.

It is my guess that OS X is not activating the external display and that must be done once OS X is up and running.

My thought is to try and tell the computer through Open Firmware that the external display is the primary display. I can find the variable for the ATIRagePro adapter, but do not know if it is possible to tell it to use the external display instead of the lcd.

Does anybody have any suggestions? I feel like there should be an easy solution, but I can't find it anywhere.

CA

 

[nixgeek]

This was a common problem with the WallStreet when installing Jaguar. If you hit the screen brightness buttons, it will come back to life when it's at the login screen or the desktop (depending on whether you have auto-login enabled). You should be able to see a ghost of the screen if you look closely.

EDIT:

OK, nevermind....I haven't had my coffee yet and I hadn't noticed that you mentioned the display wasn't working physically at all prior to the Jaguar installation. It is possible that OS X is defaulting to the LCD screen instead of the external display. Since I haven't tried this scenario, I coiuldn't tell you anythign based on experience. The only thing I could think is that if there is a "fn" key on the WallStreet that will allow you to display to the external display, that might do the trick. I don't remember if the WallStreet had this capability, but i would imagine so if it could connect to an external display such as a projector or a monitor.