[PB] Since we're already OT... (Loading OS X on G3)

[Ralph Lewis]

You could have a Tiger CD failure, I installed tiger yesterday on a  
customers Sage iMac, and have a graphite in the shop on running  
tiger. The machine was running system 9.0 I installed System 9.2.2 as  
the The Firmware update required 9.1 or better. I used Firmware  
update 4.1.9f1 then installed Tiger and  everything worked fine.


On Jul 1, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> This isn't a book.  This is an iMac, one of those colorful ones.   
> It's graphite, with built-in fire wire.
>
>> I think Tiger will only install with machines that have built-in
>> Firewire.  Thus, it may just be that your book may be too old?
>>
>>>
>>> I just acquired an iMac DV with a 500 MHz G3, 256MB ram, and a 30GB
>>> HD.  I'm trying to install Mac OS 10.4, but the system keeps failing
>>> about 95% of the way through.  I have the software restore disks  
>>> that
>>> were original with the system and I have fully restored the original
>>> software.  From the web pages I've browsed, I need to update from
>>> 9.0.4 to 9.1 and then upgrade to the 5.4.1 firmware version.
>>>
>>> All of these items seem to have completed successfully, but my OS
>>> 10.4 installation continues to fail.


Ralph Lewis
www.mac-care.com
maccare at gwi.net
QuickSilver G4 - Dual 800, 1.25G RAM,
OSX 10.4, 22" Cinema Display