Trouble Installing Jaguar onto a Blue & White G3

[Chris Foote]

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>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 05:36:50 +1100
>Subject: Re: [X-Apps]
>From: Peter Sealy <pandcsealy at hotkey.net.au>
>Message-Id: <58CB9C7C-0C6E-11D7-822C-0050E42EAE66 at hotkey.net.au>
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>On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 03:45  AM, Justin Brooks wrote:
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>>  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.
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>Are you trying to install Jaguar on the same partition as any other OS?
>If it is possible for you [having backups etc]I believe it is best to
>wipe the drive, reformat and clean install Jaguar.
>
>.........
>
>Peter Sealy
>Thurgoona AUSTRALIA
>BWG3 rev2 400/768 RAM OSX10.2.2

That is really not necessary. He already tried another hard drive. I 
don't think the B/W G3 is one of the G3's that require installation 
in the first 8 MB, is it? Another thing to do is remove all non-Apple 
RAM-I had this problem with a TiBook, and it turned out that I had a 
stick of bad RAM.
Chris
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