[G4] My huge problems in upgrading to Panther

[CJ Scaminaci]

I walked into my local Apple store yesterday and purchased my copy of 
Panther. I opened it in the middle of the store to make sure I didn't 
get a bad CD 2. Mine were fine. I brought it home and upgraded my 
PowerBook G4, wow am I impressed. The installation went without a 
problem and I really love Panther. My boot time went from about 1 1/2 
minutes on my 1Ghz Powerbook with 512MB RAM to about 51 seconds. I also 
installed XCode and that really impressed me as well. So far Panther 
hasn't given me any problems, but I'll be installing it on my Sawtooth 
later today, so we'll see then. My two cents.

CJ
On Nov 2, 2003, at 3:06 AM, Tracker at aol.com wrote:

> Today, I did the upgrade to Panther on my Lombard laptop. When I 
> started the
> installation, I was unable to get my Lombard to start up from the 
> Panther CD
> no matter what I tried.
>
> After the fourth attempt to start from the CD, I realized that I still 
> had
> the replacement CDRW/DVD drive inserted in the bay. I removed it and 
> inserted
> the original CD reader that came with the Lombard.
>
> The Panther installation went without a hitch except when it wanted to
> connect to the internet to register the installation. I did not have a 
> physical
> connection hooked up, so I simply hit the "Continue" button and 
> finished the
> installation.
>
> After the installation, I shut down and installed a new 128Mb RAM chip 
> to
> bring the laptop up to 256Mb. So far, I have reconfirmed all my 
> preference
> settings and everything seems to be working properly.
>
> There are some visual differences to get used to and I think that the 
> laptop
> starts up quicker now than with Jaguar. It certainly shuts down much 
> quicker,
> only a couple of revolutions of the gear wheel instead of 9 or 10 as 
> before.
>
> With the ease of installation (once I put in a bootable CD drive) that 
> I
> experienced, I would suggest that you consider that there might have 
> been a
> problem that you created when you did the clean installation of Jaguar 
> and then did
> an "Archive" installation of Panther.
>
> The "shade that comes down the computer screen with a message to 
> restart"
> indicates a kernel panic. Try to reboot and check whether that is 
> repeated. If it
> isn't repeated, then try to run some programs to check the performance 
> of
> your machine.
>
> If it still goes into panic mode, try booting to the install CD and 
> run Disk
> Utility to repair your hard drive (if possible).
>
> After that, I am out of suggestions because of my own novice standing 
> with
> OS-X. Good luck.
>
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