Re: [NTLK] [OT] G3 won't install

From: Alan Davis (mdawd_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 18:57:30 PDT


Hate to reply to my own reply, but just found out that there is an alpha
version of XPostFacto3 that fixes this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto
3.html

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teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to
meet any new situation by reorganizing- and a wonderful method it can be for
creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency,
and demoralization.

                                             Petronius Arbiter
                                             210 B.C.

On 05/18/04 9:33 PM, "Alan Davis" <mdawd_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

> AFAIK Panther will not install on Beige G3's (I have one too) the oldest
> models supported by Panther have built in USB (i.e. Blue and white G-3's).
>
> _____
> We trained hard- but it seemed that every time we began to form up into
> teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to
> meet any new situation by reorganizing- and a wonderful method it can be for
> creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency,
> and demoralization.
>
> Petronius Arbiter
> 210 B.C.
>
>
>
>
> On 05/18/04 4:51 PM, "Doug Augustyn" <optix_at_six5535.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a beige G3 that I would like to have running OS 10.3. Is this
>> possible?
>> When I boot it from the CD, it loads off of the CD, then after a few minutes
>> displays a screen reading:
>> You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
>> button for several seconds or press the Restart button.
>>
>> I do as I am instructed, and It reboots, yet it gives the same screen if I
>> leave the CD in. Yet, if I take the CD out, it gives this message before I
>> even get to the Apple silhouette loading screen:
>> can't OPEN:
>> and it just repeats about 30 times, then proceeds to load OS 9.2 which is the
>> current OS.
>>
>> Any Ideas? I've been out of the "old" Mac scene for a while now, the new G5's
>> that my school bought sure are cool...
>

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