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thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
 Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 10:39:25
Yes, for the 3rd time since jaguars been out, i'm reinstalling 10.2 AGAIN on my beige g4. Bascically, I tried to add my vst ata card and overclock it again, but that just seriously screwed it up. My extents file thingy crashed both norton system works 1 and tech tool pro 3, so i couldn't salvage anything. i'm currently writing to you all in 9.2.2. ugh... what a pain. My rev a rom is causing a kernel panic with the ragepro kernel extensions on the cd ( i had installed it before with a rev c and deleted those extensions when i put the rev a back in it.) So i'm either going to beg to borrow the rev c rom from my friend again, or try to make a bootable osx cd without those kernel extensions. sometimes i hate my computer. I wish i had a shiny new mpg4._______________________
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 10:49:19
quote:
Yes, for the 3rd time since jaguars been out, i'm reinstalling 10.2 AGAIN on my beige g4 . . . sometimes i hate my computer. I wish i had a shiny new mpg4.
Basically, you're trying to run 8.6 on a IIci, take the hint!  jt  ™.
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thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 11:13:29
now there's an idea!!!
*quickly glances over at IIci*  
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Kady Mae
Junior Member
USA
261 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 13:40:03
Overclocking = russian roulette.68K's liberated: 4
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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 21:43:19
quote:
Basically, you're trying to run 8.6 on a IIci, take the hint!
Would that even work at all? I thought 68k was only capable of running up to 8.1. quote:
i hate my computer. I wish i had a shiny new mpg4.
It sounds like you've got things under control. At least you have some idea of the problem. Just keep plugging. You'll get it eventually. The Lightning Stalker |
Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 22:03:35
quote:
quote:
Basically, you're trying to run 8.6 on a IIci, take the hint!
Would that even work at all? I thought 68k was only capable of running up to 8.1. quote:
i hate my computer. I wish i had a shiny new mpg4.
It sounds like you've got things under control. At least you have some idea of the problem. Just keep plugging. You'll get it eventually.
Exactly, the whole point was that anybody who'd try to run X on a beige G3 shouldn't expect it to behave any better than if they were doing stupid OS tricks to get 8.6 to run on a IIci! I wouldn't try to run it on a B&W G3, the people running it on Sonnet cards in 6xxx boxes are insane!jt ™.
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boredomconquersall
Full Member
Canada
613 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 22:17:45
hahaha! I've been there. stupid REV. A ROM's... here's what you do (it's what I did, until the cheap compaq hard drive crapped out on me)get a SCSI drive (1.5GB-8GB, but 1GB is a minimum) and format it from 9.2, so if you somehow get stuck in 9.2, you can get back to 10.2 without a reinstall
get an APPLE BRANDED (crucial) external SCSI CDrom drive (I used my pathetic 4X... but it did it, and if you don't have an external one, swap one of your other external SCSI devices out of it's case, unless yours is a tower, and I belive it has more than one 5.25" bays.. does it not?)
*note
TERMINATION IS A MUST!!
do a couple drive tests in disk first aid in the 10.2 install proggie (it's a good idea anyways)
select the SCSI hard drive, and watch the magic, or, if the SCSI CDrom drive is of the 600I, the 300I or (god forbid) the wicked fast APPLE CD 150 (!!!) veriety, then go take a nap or have a beer (depending on age)
wait...
wait...
beer...
beer...
nap...
nap...
check 10.2 install
repeat previous 7 steps if needed aaaaaaaaaaand..... YOU BE DONE! enjoy 10.2 on the beige G3.
----------WARNING!----------do not repeat the beer steps more than 3 times... you face distroying something and another word of advice... do not unplug your computer or do the ctrl-cmd-power reset while running 10.2 is running. you risk the corruption of 10.2 or various other proggies... you even run the risk of damaging hardware (it's unix! when unix screws up... IT REALLY SCREWS UP!!) there. all done.
THnxnx"your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries!"
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thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
Posted - 09 Nov 2002 : 23:04:53
well, i traded the vst card for a adaptec 2940uw card (i think it's a flashed pc card, but works none the less, i think) I had sitting around 2 seagate ultra wide scsi drives, model st32155w incase anybody cares. I'm in a dilema, i can't figure out why the single drives or the raid of those 2 drives is slower than the onboard ata. i checked with norton and a benchmark app that comes with fwb hard drive speed tools and they both said i was getting less than 10 meg per sec, but i should be getting around 40, right? plus if anybody here has any experience with this card, should it be able to boot osx installs, i can get it to boot off of os9 installs but not osx. I've spent pracitically all day trying to figure this stuff out. thanks in advance _______________________
Sgt. Thelip
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i killed my mac again!!!
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.