Beige G3 Tiger Install revisited

[Green78II]

A while back I attempted to install Tiger on my 266 MHZ Beige G3. Today I received a Sonnet G4/500MHZ CPU I had bought off eBay. I installed it and tested it.

I decided to reattempt my Tiger install. I ran Xpostfacto with my Tiger DVD in my DVD drive, it began the install and appeared to reboot successfully (I saw the grey

apple logo) I thought I was all set when and this came up

and a high pitched Wheeeeeee sound came from my monitor when the final screen came up.

Config is

USB 1.1 card

Apple 10/100 ethernet card

Sonnet 500 MHZ G4 processor upgrade

80 GB hard drive with 7GB primary partition 70 GB(or so) OS9 partition on primary Master no jumper on drive

Pioneer DVD - RW drive on Secondary Master

100 MB Zip drive on Secondary Slave.

Apple Color Plus 14" Display

Any Ideas? I suspect the monitor may have something to do with it but I'm not sure.

 

[MacJunky]

I would suggest trying a different possibly newer display.

Apparently that one can only to 640x480@67Hz

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I know I've run Panther on a 640x480; but I don't know about Tiger. It could just be that Tiger really does need more than that, and Tiger may ignore the old fashioned Mac sense lines.

I'm just having a hell of a time getting Tiger onto my clamshell iBook at the moment... My external USB DVD drive *WILL* boot the Tiger DVD, but of course a stock Tiger DVD will refuse to install. Booting into 9.2.2 or 10.3.9, XPostFacto won't let me select the Tiger disc to boot from, saying it's not on a bootable device!

 

[Osgeld]

running linux on my 8500 I needed to boot into a console, edit the window manager config file and hope for the best while using my (bad) apple monitor

since X plays somewhat by the same basic ideas it may be something to google

 

[geeko]

I'm just having a hell of a time getting Tiger onto my clamshell iBook at the moment... My external USB DVD drive *WILL* boot the Tiger DVD, but of course a stock Tiger DVD will refuse to install. Booting into 9.2.2 or 10.3.9, XPostFacto won't let me select the Tiger disc to boot from, saying it's not on a bootable device!

just install tiger in a newer mac, and transport the HD over to the clamshell. this worked very well for me, i put the old hard drive from my pismo into a lombard (101), and it works fine, and i took the old hard drive from my newer key lime ibook and put it in a 300mhz ibook, and everything works great in both computers (but they are a little slow...)

 

[Anonymous Freak]

The only Mac I have that I would be able to do that with is a first-gen 12" PowerBook G4, and I don't feel like ripping hard drives out of either system. (I do have a spare 2.5" hard drive, but my only external case for such a drive is USB, and since both machines are USB 1.1, the disk cloning would take FOREVER. (I've done it before, that exact thing: Clone the PBG4 onto the external, then clone from there onto the iBook.)