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Authored by: blgrace on Mar 09, '04 06:37:51PM

I have a Beige G3 Desktop with a Powerlogix 500mhz ZIF upgrade, 384mb ram, PCI USB and 100/10 Ethernet cards installed.

The only way I have been able to install Jaguar (and I've done this a few times now after stupidly experimenting with 10.2.8 upgrade and trying to install CUPS software) is to pull out all but one ram stick and both the USB and Ethernet cards. Trying to boot from my SCSI burner just didn't work.

So my advice - pull out all you PCI cards, leave only one stick of ram in, disconnect all SCSI devices and Jaguar will install happily.

The only glitch I had recently was after hosing my system by trying to install CUPS again (to see if I could get a printer working) , was that upgrading to 10.2.6 caused a crash (The grey Japanese screen of death with the "Please restart your computer by holding down the power key" message. This left the update unsuccessful and caused instability. I had to delete the 10.2.6 receipt in /Library/ Receipts and reinstall the 10.2.6 upgrade to properly complete the upgrade.

If you value your sanity, avoid the temptation to go to 10.2.8 and forget about Panther. I haven't used XPostFacto, Version 3.0a14 is available but it states on the developer's site that inbuilt video on the Beige G3 is not supported under Panther.

Phew..... so have fun :-)

oh p.s if you use Roxio Toast and you have an external SCSI burner and start getting BUS RESET errors when trying to burn CDs , save yourself some angst by changing SCSI cables - don't look for software/driver answers.



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