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Installing OS X in an OLD beige Power Mac G3
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The short and sweet: will OS X run on an old beige Power Mac G3, and if so, how do I install it?
The long version:
As a stop-gap measure, I want to install OS X Tiger on an old beige G3 with a 13 GB HD until a new iMac can be procured. I want to do this quickly to save data from a second old G3 before its hard drive permanently fails (it has a hard time starting already).
I've read so far that OS X won't install unless the CD-ROM is set up as the master drive and the HD is the slave drive (which I swap back once the installation is complete) and that the HD must have partitions no larger than 7.45 GB as reported by Disk Utility.
Is there anything else I need to know, or am I trying to revive a dead horse?
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Originally Posted by frdmfghtr 
or am I trying to revive a dead horse?
Yes.
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Ah, don't listen to him.
XPostFacto is the software you want and there's lots of intructions on that page.
I haven't tried it on my old Beige G3 yet (it's still running Jaguar) but I've decided to get some memory and a USB/Firewire card for the old thing. If accelerators weren't so expensive I'd probably get one of those too for the hell of it!
Chris
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WAIT! If you want to save data from a drive that you suspect is failing, this is not the best way to proceed. You need to back up your drive immediately.
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If you know that your harddrive is failing. Don't touch the drive anymore. Back up all your data now onto a new, working drive!
Even if everything was working, don't bother putting 10.4 on that machine. Run a version of OS 9 or Linux on it, if you have to.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
If you know that your harddrive is failing. Don't touch the drive anymore. Back up all your data now onto a new, working drive!
Even if everything was working, don't bother putting 10.4 on that machine. Run a version of OS 9 or Linux on it, if you have to.
You've both got the wrong end of the stick. He's putting 10.4 on a fully working G3 to backup files from a SECOND G3 with a failing hard disk.
I installed Mandrake Linux on my G3 (with 128mb of RAM) sometime back, expecting performance to be good. In fact, while OS X was just about usable, Linux with KDE was completely unusable. Gnome or Enlightenment and more RAM might give you a better result, but Linux isn't the small optimised system it once was.
It isn't a simple install either, so I'd recommend going with OS X personally.
Chris
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