mraroid
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I have a plan, but still waiting on parts. The B&W G3 is up and running on the mechanical hard drive that came with it. I am enjoying playing with the more modern OS 8. 5 something.You don't, but this is probably something where you should just try a few configurations, get yourself a 2TB or smaller USB drive to back up data from your Power Mac, and then just have fun rconfiguring it and trying different things.
At this point, because every single person has a different personal idea on how to do things, you're never going to decide anything if you shift gears after every single post.
I would hold off on buying anything else, except perhaps an under-128GB IDE hard disk and just start trying things out. If I'm reading correctly you already have almost two or three whole machines worth of parts and you have yet to get it to boot into an OS.
It's great to bounce ideas around, but at some point you either have to
1) think about the advice and synthesize what you think might be the best strategy
2) given that you've laid down money and have hardware in your hands, start doing things.
I like to play with hardware. I found a Yikes! motherboard for under $20, and a G4 500Mhz processor for just under $20. I am looking for jumpers to set the CPU on the Yikes board. I am trying to figure out the speed of the CD burner in the B&W and may upgrade it. I have decided to run a version of OSX - I think it will be fun. I bought a PCI card that will give me two USB 2.0 ports if I run it under OSX. My friend is mailing me some CDs of 9.22 and a version of OSX for a G4. I will not know the details until they arrive. I have a 128 GB solid state drive on hand. But I am not going to install that until the Yikes! motherboard and CPU arrive. And then I hope to use the G4 CDs my friend has in the mail to me.
My B&W G3 motherboard is V2. I thought that many some folks here that are running a V1 motherboard might want to buy mine. It is a 400Mhz board and I am going to sell it with the processor. I do not expect much for it. I am going to pull the CPU and use the brand of thermal paste I like (Arctic MX-4) to re instill it. Nuts I know - but this is my idea if fun.
I have built most of my computers and build super fast computers for kids that like to play on line games (two high end video cars, two ethernet ports, etc). It is really fun for me to play with older Mac hardware. I prefer something old and broken that I can take apart and play with. As soon as I am set up and working I would like to grab a few things on Macintosh garden for my Mystic. After that, I want to set up FTP or something similar so I can move files over the network from the Yikes! to the Mystic.
mraroid