[rescue] Bondi-ng

[Phil Stracchino]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 04:37:48PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I have a set of 10.4 ISOs, and a copy of XPostFacto.  It'll run 10.4
>> with XPostFacto as long as it has at least 256M of RAM?
> 
> As far as I know, Tiger will run on anything with PCI and a factory G3
> (which is NOT the Kanga aka 3500) with enough RAM and disk space,
> if you use XPostfacto. 
> 
> There are some powersaving issues, even with supported computers. 
> 
> Before you try to install it, you have to install any firmware updates. 
> They are on the 9.1 CD, or can be downloaded. I think you need to do 
> this for ANY version of OSX. For some strange reason, they need
> to be run from a writeable OS9 boot disk, so you have to install
> OS9 first anyway.

Got the machine up to 384MB RAM, 6MB VRAM, and happy.  It already has
two boot disks, one OS9, one OSX.  Next step, firmware updates, I guess.

Any reason NOT to update the OS9 install to 9.2.2, the newest I have?



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