[X Newbies] OS X on old iMac

[Brian Thorpe]

I am currently using a Rev A iMac with 384MB of ram, a 40GB HD, and Mac 
OS X 10.2.3. The ONLY trouble if had was in installing 10.2. I had 10.1 
installed, but when I tried to upgrade to 10.2 the install sequence 
would always quit at a different count-down time before completion.

The final solution was to remove the memory module in the upper slot. 
The installation went fine after that. After the installation I 
re-installed the module and have had no update problems since.

The machine runs acceptably fast, especially since 10.2.3. The graphics 
are a little slow, but if you understand what you've got and you don't 
expect Dual Gig performance, you can get by.

I even have Virtual PC on this machine. But... if you want to talk 
about slow...

The biggest setup issue is how you partition your drive and what you do 
with OS 9. I recently rearranged my folder structure and if you are 
interested, let me know and I'll forward you my info.

Good luck,
Bri

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 06:28  PM, Scott Petersen wrote:

> Is anyone using OS X on the very first iMac (the bondi)? According to 
> Apple, this is at least theoretically possible. However, is it 
> practically possible? Can the speed of the machine handle the burden?
>
> Scott Petersen
> Nagoya, Japan