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

[Ralph Mawyer]

Great, now let us know how it runs.... ;-)


On Apr 9, 2004, at 2:24 PM, Clemens P.B. Hladek wrote:

> 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, Jr.
San Antonio, Texas

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