[X Newbies] Can't install on Beige G3

[W Lane]

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 07:07  PM, Chris Lowrance wrote:

> I have a 15" Titanium laptop upgraded to 1GB RAM. I had some 
> intermittent crashes and generally weird behavior(both before and 
> after RAM upgrade). I decided my 'puter could use a fresh install of 
> the OS, so I scrubbed the HDD and started clean. After 3 failed 
> installs - always near the very end, I yanked the new RAM out and put 
> in the original 512MB that came in the laptop. Lo and behold, OS 
> install went flawlessly...after a lil trial and error, I found I had a 
> bum stick of RAM. RMA'd the RAM and now all is well.

I would agree with this and would also add that when I was trying to 
install X onto my old beige I had to strip it back to stock. That is, 
96MB RAM, which seemed rather odd as theoretically that is not even 
enough to run X. However, once I did that, the install went flawless.
The 'can't open' thing if I recall refers to Firmware maybe being in 
need of updating.

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William Lane
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