[MacDV] The joke was funny but on a serious not - seriously!

[ShirleyK]

Well, for starters, Panther isn't supported on that system. Here's 
something one of our user group members posted:

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As Beige G3 owners have been painfully aware, Apple introduced Panther 
with
the warning that OS 10.3.x was not supported on Macs without factory
built-in USB.

As a number of postings in this Apple.com forums and elsewhere 
indicate, a
growing number of us have been using Ryan Rempel's alpha versions of
XPostFacto (the latest is XPF 3.0a11) to install Panther and upgrade it 
to
10.3.2 on Beiges and other vintage models.

There is a great deal of valuable info to be gained from the .html 
document
that downloads with the so-far-free XPF AND from the OWC (Other World
Computing) Mac Project Forums for unsupported Macs at
<http://anybox.owc.net/forum/index.php>

What follows is information I posted there earlier today on the OWC 
Beige G3
forum on how to clone--AND still make BOOTABLE--10.3.2 volumes from one
internal drive to another and how to clone a bootable 10.3.2 volume to 
an
external FireWire drive. (Apple Tech Support has long insisted that 
such old
Macs as the Beige G3 could not be used to boot FireWire drives. 
Rempel's XPF
has made that possible). The cloning of 10.3.2 from an internal drive 
to a
FW hd has not been documented up until now, as far as I'm aware.
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His name is Norm Nager and he wrote this in February, if you want to 
look up his post on that forum. In general such questions should be 
asked in other forums dedicated to keeping old systems alive. This 
forum is supposed to be about iMovie.

Shirley

On Nov 27, 2004, at 9:10 PM, <chris.film at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Yeah, it was a pretty funny joke but seriously I just purchased a used
> Beige G3/266 Minitower. Any ideas fro upgrades? I was thinking of
> maxing out the RAM ans installing a 32MB PCI video card at OWC. Also
> plan to get a Pioneer DVR-106 internal. Any thoughts? I want to run
> Final Cut Express 1.0.1 too.