[Duo2400] Re: OS X on 2400c - success!!!

[Clemens P.B. Hladek]

Hi all.
It has finally worked:

I INSTALLED MAC OS X 10.1 ON MY PB 2400C TODAY - WITHOUT TAKING ANY HDD 
OUT ...

(I´m just about to install a necessary sec. update and the 10.1.5 combo 
update while I write this email.)

I have tried for the last 1-2 months to do it. I tried to copy an 
installation from my ibook; tried to install from an external harddrive; 
tried anything i could think of or have read about.

At last it was VERY simple. I took an ancient cd-rom-drive from an 
almost forgotten PPC 6100/66 and put it into my external cd-rom-drive. I 
had installed Ryan Rempels XPostFacto 2.2.5 previously on the target 
drive (http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto). And I had the 
hdd formatted into 3 partitions (4,3,3 MB) and installed MacOs X 10.1 
onto the first one.

I can hardly believe it myself. It was so  S I M P L E ... Just did what 
Ryan wrote in his instructions.

Good luck to anyone who wants to try it, too !!!
It was not difficult at all, it just took about an hour with this 2x or 
3x cd-rom-drive ...

Best regards to everybody,     Clemens Hladek (Frankfurt, Germany)


Ralph Mawyer wrote:

> Clemens a number of folks, specifically Jake Luck,  have done it on 
> the  2400, but it's really....really slow. The RAM requirement seemed 
> to be  the biggest constraint, even with 112MB.
>
> There's a bit of info in the archives, though we never did a write-up  
> on the 2400 site summarizing the issues, unfortunately.
>
> Jake's OS X posting:  
> http://www.mail-archive.com/duolist@lists.themacintoshguy.com/ 
> msg13551.html
>
> General Search:  http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch? 
> config=duolist_lists_themacintoshguy_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=osx+up 
> grade
>
>
> Example:
>
>  At 14:32 +0900 12/18/02, Philip Lord wrote:
>
> I am running OSX on my 2400 G3 400mhz with 80meg of ram. I have  
> recently purchased a 96meg RAM chip which will arrive in about a 
> week.  My question is...How much faster is OSX with 112meg than with 
> 80meg?  Has anyone experienced both?
>
>  uh...a whole lot slower than a TiBook or new iBook, with  
> 128/256/512/1GB available at much lower cost.
>
>  Yeah, I know, I am being *way* too practical! =)
>
> ***********************
> Jake's OS X posting:  
> http://www.mail-archive.com/duolist@lists.themacintoshguy.com/ 
> msg13551.html
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2004, at 3:48 AM, Clemens P.B. Hladek wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> a few weeks ago i bought John Tree´s pb 2400c, which is very fast 
>> and  nice and good to have (interware G3 320 mhz).
>> now i´d love to have OS X on it ...
>> has ANYBODY succeded in installing that WITHOUT taking the harddisk  
>> out? has anybody heard or read about a site where this might be  
>> explained? (i read the page by Ivan Drucker - but he put the hd into 
>> a  desktop mac.)
>> i tried a lot of things myself. all i so far achieved was a 
>> near-GLOD  that was hard to repair. so i don´t want to risk my new 
>> little darling  for some wild scheme ...
>> greetings to you all,     clemens
>>
> Ralph Mawyer, Jr.
> San Antonio, Texas
>
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