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siflippant · Mar 17, 2006, 09:42 AM

Hey all,

a friend of mine is having problems installing OS X 10.0 (10.0.3 install disk) onto his Wallstreet (1998, 233mhz, 160MB, 80GB Toshiba HD) - everytime he gets to the installation window to select the drive to install upon on, it appears grayed out... and he cannot continue with the installation process.

Any ideas what he could be doing wrong? He is using this config. single partition, Mac OS Extended... (have tried 2 partitions as well) - but each time no joy...

I hope you guys can help as this Wallstreet is in mint condition and he would like to try OS X as he is planning on upgrading his ram to 512MB (for obvious performance issues).

Goldfinger · Mar 17, 2006, 09:52 AM

I got an idea. Stay away from 10.0 and install 10.2 or 10.3/10.4 using Xpostfacto.

Also: If you have a hard drive over 8 GB you must install OS X in the first 8GB on that machine. So you need to make an 8GB partition for OSX and a second partition with the rest of the hard drive space on that machine.

OS X will be slow as molasses on this machine.. even with 512MB of RAM.

Big Mac · Mar 17, 2006, 09:58 AM

Yeah, the Wallstreet PB really isn't a very good candidate for OS X. OS X never officially supported it. Your friend should just get a mini instead, IMO.

mrmister · Mar 17, 2006, 04:03 PM

Don't install 10.0--yick. Xpostfacto it, please.

Morn · Mar 18, 2006, 02:31 AM

Originally Posted by mrmister

Don't install 10.0--yick. Xpostfacto it, please.

Better 10.0 than OS9, hehe.

Chuckit · Mar 18, 2006, 02:37 AM

Originally Posted by Morn

Better 10.0 than OS9, hehe.

That is debatable.

Rainy Day · Mar 18, 2006, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by siflippant

a friend of mine is having problems installing OS X 10.0 (10.0.3 install disk) onto his Wallstreet (1998, 233mhz, 160MB, 80GB Toshiba HD) - everytime he gets to the installation window to select the drive to install upon on, it appears grayed out... and he cannot continue with the installation process.

Why is it always “a friend of mine” who has problems?

Almost certainly his problem is he doesn’t have his 80Gb drive partitioned correctly for the Wallstreet. I write about that in this post about getting Tiger installed on a Wallstreet.

Contrary to what others in this thread have said, MacOS X was officially supported on the Wallstreet up through Jaguar (10.2). However the fastest and most stable versions of MacOS X on the Wallstreet are Panther and Tiger (which require Xpostfacto). Tiger seems to be the most optimal. In fact, i think Tiger on the Wallstreet is the best possible OS to run on this machine (even better than OS 9). Jaguar seemed slow because it didn’t support video acceleration. Tiger seems to and therefore feels much snappier.

I think you are mistaken in the amount of RAM in the machine (192Mb maybe?). In any event, i’d recommend a minimum of 320Mb. I was out to Other World Computing not long ago pricing Wallstreet RAM and noticed it’s quite reasonable right now.

Rainy Day · 02:30 PM

Just re-read your post; his problem definitely is the drive partitioning.

512Mb RAM is good, although the machine can actually go up to 1Gb (although few people seem to know this as Apple said 512Mb was the limit… which was true at the time the Wallstreet was shipping).

Also, forgot to mention that MacOS 10.0-10.2 are not terribly stable (on the Wallstreet). Panther or Tiger are the best choices for both stability and performance.