The Macster
Well-known member
So as you may know, I've managed to source a Sonnet G4 upgrade CPU for my Beigey, which means that I am now of course very interested in getting Leopard installed on it! 
I can't see any reason why it should be impossible, given that once you've got AltiVec it's just a case of getting the right drivers for the system into Leopard (which is no different than getting the Intel release of Leopard to work on non-Apple systems, and we know that is perfectly possible), I'm just going to need lots of help from you guys! (i.e. people who know lots about OS X ) I have put my important questions in bold - please help out if you can, and hopefully we can win Round 3 in the Beige Macs vs Apple war! (sadly, looking round the web there seems to be very little interest in these old machines nowadays, it's all Sawtooth-this Digital Audio-that, so I hope you can help me out as no-one else seems able/willing to)
So, I understand that the issue is that Leopard crashes on G4-upgraded G3s with an error related to it not being able to find drivers for the system (I suppose Apple realised that G3s could still be made to live on into the Leopard age if they were given G4 upgrades, so they thought they'd better remove the drivers from the DVD as well as compile it all for AltiVec, just to make sure ) So the issue is what drivers need to be added to Leopard, and where to get them from, or is there more to this than that? And the drivers we are talking about are .kexts, or is there more to it than that also?
With .kext files, I can see we have two sources: the Apple Tiger kexts and the XPostFacto kexts. Of course, both of these are designed for Tiger, so will they need to be modified in some way to work on Leopard? And which kexts (from Tiger and/or XPF) will be needed to provide support for the Beige G3? I found that these (below) are the kexts that come with XPF, however I have little idea what any of these do - which are relevant to the Beige G3? (presumably the ones like PowerSurge and SCSI ones are irrelevant, but what else?) Did Tiger itself contain any relevant kexts that we will also need, or had it also had all of the Beige kexts stripped out of it?
Once we know what kexts are needed, should they just go in /System/Library/Extensions on the DVD (for booting into the installation) and then again on the hard drive once Leopard is installed on it? I don't suppose there's any way of integrating them into the installation so that they don't have to be added manually once it's installed?
Thanks in advance!
I can't see any reason why it should be impossible, given that once you've got AltiVec it's just a case of getting the right drivers for the system into Leopard (which is no different than getting the Intel release of Leopard to work on non-Apple systems, and we know that is perfectly possible), I'm just going to need lots of help from you guys! (i.e. people who know lots about OS X ) I have put my important questions in bold - please help out if you can, and hopefully we can win Round 3 in the Beige Macs vs Apple war! (sadly, looking round the web there seems to be very little interest in these old machines nowadays, it's all Sawtooth-this Digital Audio-that, so I hope you can help me out as no-one else seems able/willing to)So, I understand that the issue is that Leopard crashes on G4-upgraded G3s with an error related to it not being able to find drivers for the system (I suppose Apple realised that G3s could still be made to live on into the Leopard age if they were given G4 upgrades, so they thought they'd better remove the drivers from the DVD as well as compile it all for AltiVec, just to make sure
) So the issue is what drivers need to be added to Leopard, and where to get them from, or is there more to this than that? And the drivers we are talking about are .kexts, or is there more to it than that also?With .kext files, I can see we have two sources: the Apple Tiger kexts and the XPostFacto kexts. Of course, both of these are designed for Tiger, so will they need to be modified in some way to work on Leopard? And which kexts (from Tiger and/or XPF) will be needed to provide support for the Beige G3? I found that these (below) are the kexts that come with XPF, however I have little idea what any of these do - which are relevant to the Beige G3? (presumably the ones like PowerSurge and SCSI ones are irrelevant, but what else?) Did Tiger itself contain any relevant kexts that we will also need, or had it also had all of the Beige kexts stripped out of it?
Code:
AppleCurio.kext
AppleGrandCentral.kext
OpenPMU.kext
AppleOHare.kext
OHareATA.kext
AppleMaceEthernet.kext
ApplePowerSurgePE.kext
ApplePowerStarPE.kext
ApplePowerExpressPE.kext
PowerSurgeCPU.kext
PowerStarCPU.kext
PatchedAppleNVRAM.kext
PatchedIOSCSICDDrive.kext
PatchedSCSIDeviceType05.kext
PatchedNDRVSupport.kext
OWCCacheConfig.kext
OpenOWScreamerAudio.kext
GossamerDeviceTreeUpdater.kextThanks in advance!
