[G4] G4 Sawtooth/Tiger Install

[John Niven]

I think what's been alluded to here is firmware updating. See this Apple doc:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120068

You can only do this from os9. I have no idea if this would be automatically handled by a direct install of OSX. I always did this first.
 
Good luck,
John

--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Larry Campbell <campgeez at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Larry Campbell <campgeez at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [G4] G4 Sawtooth/Tiger Install
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:23 PM
> Hi Bill, I have a G4 400 mhz APG powermac. It originally had
> 256 mb of ram and a 10 gb hard drive. I added 1gb of ram and
> a 120 gb hard drive to it. I used disk utility to set up the
> hard drive, then I installed Tiger with no problem at all. I
> did not have to install OS 9. I am running just fine.
> On Feb 15, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Bill Coan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am a recent novice Mac user having baught a G4
> "Sawtooth" only several months ago. I have done
> quite a bit of reading about
> > upgrades and have taken a couple of simple steps on my
> own (I'm not a novice to computers as a whole and am not
> squeamish
> > about opening one up and doing some basic renovating).
> > 
> > I have upgraded the memory to a full 2 GB although I
> understand this will only recognize 1.5 GB until I install
> OS X (I have Tiger).
> > Cut to the chase; I was told OS 9 would need to be
> installed before I could install Tiger so I did that
> successfully. Now, when I try
> > to install iger I get a pop-up message indicating that
> there is an application needed to initiate the install that
> isn't being found but
> > no reference to what that application is.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any Idea what's going on here or
> has had this problem before who can give me some info on how
> to complete
> >  this upgrade?
> > Thanks...Fatwilly