Trouble Installing Jaguar onto a Blue & White G3

[Justin Brooks]

>Message-ID: <20021210201307.70623.qmail at web41010.mail.yahoo.com>
>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:13:07 -0800 (PST)
>From: John Pariseau <simplymail at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [X-Apps] Trouble Installing Jaguar onto a Blue & White G3
>
>I was able to get it to install (with the original RAM, and good Crucial RAM) on a rev1 B/W 300mhz
>
>The problem with it - Jaguar hangs - unrecoverably. I have tried installing it several ways, and
>no go. This is on a stock B/W.
>
>You may want to do a minumum install (by turning off all the extra fonts), and sit there while it
>installs. Some computers go into energy saver mode when OSX is installed (well, this was reported
>over the web in various forums).
>
>--- Justin Brooks <brookj at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>> I can not get Jaguar to install on my blue and white G3.  I was previously running 10.03 with no
>> problems at all.  When I try to install Jaguar, I go through all the installation choices, and
>> it starts to install.  When I get back to the computer, it is always hung up at the grey Apple
>> logo during boot.  I have checked my RAM, removed all devices that didn't ship with my Mac, I
>> have even removed the hard drive and tried another hard drive using the format option in the
>> installation.  If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.  My G3 is a Blue and White, 350 MHz,
>> with 512 MB of Ram.
>> 
>> -Justin Brooks               
>
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Thanks for all of the suggestions, it turns out that the system was putting itself to sleep during the installation, that simple.  After baby-sitting the system during installation, even during a full install, Jaguar installed successfully.  Nice to know that it wasn't the box.

-Justin Brooks