Anyone tried 10.2.6 on an "old" beige G3 tower. I tried 10.2 Jaguar and
it totally killed my machine. I ended up reinstalling 10.0 to 10.1 to
10.1.5. I don't want to go through this again but I would like to
upgrade to the latest version of OS X.

Thanks in advance.

Bob

Brian Paul Ehni wrote:

> I installed 10.2.6 on a beige G3/266 tower with no difficulty.
>
> I was amazed, as my previous experience was like yours; wouldn't install,
> kernel panics, etc. This is a different box, though.
>
> Brian
>

Is 10.2.6 available as an installable CD? I am afraid to go through the
mess of starting with 10.2 and upgrading. The Apple store only shows
10.2 Jaguar plus a 10.2.5 upgrade.

Thanks again.

Bob

In article <3F3EFFF2.2010603[at]earthlink.net>,
Robert Claeson <rclaeson[at]earthlink.net> wrote:

> Brian Paul Ehni wrote:
>
> > I installed 10.2.6 on a beige G3/266 tower with no difficulty.
> >
> > I was amazed, as my previous experience was like yours; wouldn't install,
> > kernel panics, etc. This is a different box, though.
> >
> > Brian
> >
>
> Is 10.2.6 available as an installable CD? I am afraid to go through the
> mess of starting with 10.2 and upgrading. The Apple store only shows
> 10.2 Jaguar plus a 10.2.5 upgrade.

The 10.2.5 upgrade is a unified installer for all the intermediate
upgrades. The 10.2.6 upgrade is painless once you're connected to the
Internet.

--
Woofbert, Chief Rocket Surgeon, Infernosoft
Woofbert's Law on Learning Linux: When attempting to learn Linux,
study it thoroughly before you begin.

In article <3F3EFFF2.2010603[at]earthlink.net>,
Robert Claeson <rclaeson[at]earthlink.net> wrote:

> Brian Paul Ehni wrote:
>
> > I installed 10.2.6 on a beige G3/266 tower with no difficulty.
> >
> > I was amazed, as my previous experience was like yours; wouldn't install,
> > kernel panics, etc. This is a different box, though.
> >
> > Brian
> >
>
> Is 10.2.6 available as an installable CD? I am afraid to go through the
> mess of starting with 10.2 and upgrading. The Apple store only shows
> 10.2 Jaguar plus a 10.2.5 upgrade.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Bob
>

You can upgrade and save the upgrades to your machine.

--
Regards,
JP
"The measure of a man is what he will do while expecting that he will get nothing in return!"

Macintosh for productivity. Linux for servers. Palm/Visor for mobility. Windows to feed the Black Hole in your IT budget

in article jpolaski-971865.11452218082003[at]netnews.attbi.com, Jim Polaski at
jpolaski[at]NOync.net wrote on 8/18/03 11:45 AM:

> You can upgrade and save the upgrades to your machine.

But what if the hard drive takes a dump?

In article <BB667909.14A0%peejster01[at]insightbb.com>,
"Jim Lee Jr." <peejster01[at]insightbb.com> wrote:

> in article jpolaski-971865.11452218082003[at]netnews.attbi.com, Jim Polaski at
> jpolaski[at]NOync.net wrote on 8/18/03 11:45 AM:
>
> > You can upgrade and save the upgrades to your machine.
>
> But what if the hard drive takes a dump?
>

You back them up when you're done.

--
Regards,
JP
"The measure of a man is what he will do while expecting that he will get nothing in return!"

Macintosh for productivity. Linux for servers. Palm/Visor for mobility. Windows to feed the Black Hole in your IT budget

in article jpolaski-EC3E81.13412918082003[at]netnews.attbi.com, Jim Polaski at
jpolaski[at]NOync.net wrote on 8/18/03 1:41 PM:

> In article <BB667909.14A0%peejster01[at]insightbb.com>,
> "Jim Lee Jr." <peejster01[at]insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>> in article jpolaski-971865.11452218082003[at]netnews.attbi.com, Jim Polaski at
>> jpolaski[at]NOync.net wrote on 8/18/03 11:45 AM:
>>
>>> You can upgrade and save the upgrades to your machine.
>>
>> But what if the hard drive takes a dump?
>>
>
> You back them up when you're done.

Forgot about that. Duh.....

The problem I had with the release 10.2 Jaguar about one year ago
is that the installation wiped out my 10.1.5 boot / system drive and
then hung during the installation. I even tried a very basic 10.2 and
that also hung will loading the second CD. I am trying to find a path
that will install without killing 10.1.5 again in case I have to go
back again. It took two weeks to recover everything last year when I
tried 10.2. I am hoping that there are some 10.2.1+ installation CDs
that will install for me. I am playing with ccclone 1.3.1 to recreate
my boot disk on partition 2 of a SCSI disk. My current boot drive is
a 6 GB SCSI partition on a 40 GB SCSI drive. Partition 2 is the same

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. It looks like 10.3 is on DVD.
I don't know if there is a DVD drive that is boot able on the old beige
G3/266 tower that I have.

Thanks in advance to everyone for your help.

Bob

In article <VKd0b.339$Ls2.180[at]newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
Robert Claeson <rclaeson[at]earthlink.net> wrote:

> The problem I had with the release 10.2 Jaguar about one year ago
> is that the installation wiped out my 10.1.5 boot / system drive and
> then hung during the installation. I even tried a very basic 10.2 and
> that also hung will loading the second CD. I am trying to find a path
> that will install without killing 10.1.5 again in case I have to go
> back again. It took two weeks to recover everything last year when I
> tried 10.2. I am hoping that there are some 10.2.1+ installation CDs
> that will install for me. I am playing with ccclone 1.3.1 to recreate
> my boot disk on partition 2 of a SCSI disk. My current boot drive is
> a 6 GB SCSI partition on a 40 GB SCSI drive. Partition 2 is the same
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

How much free space did you have on the boot partition?

> It looks like 10.3 is on DVD.

Except for developer releases, 10.3 hasn't been released. If you had
such bad luck with 10.2, don't install any 10.3 yet!

> I don't know if there is a DVD drive that is boot able on the old beige
> G3/266 tower that I have.

Check www.xlr8yourmac.com. They have a searchable database of Macintosh
types and drives that have been installed, alongwith stories about how
well they worked. I suspect that 10.3 won't work with anything older
than a BW G3.

> Thanks in advance to everyone for your help.
>
> Bob
>
>

--
Woofbert, Chief Rocket Surgeon, Infernosoft
Woofbert's Law on Learning Linux: When attempting to learn Linux,
study it thoroughly before you begin.

Woofbert wrote:
> In article <VKd0b.339$Ls2.180[at]newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
> Robert Claeson <rclaeson[at]earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>The problem I had with the release 10.2 Jaguar about one year ago
>>is that the installation wiped out my 10.1.5 boot / system drive and
>>then hung during the installation. I even tried a very basic 10.2 and
>>that also hung will loading the second CD. I am trying to find a path
>>that will install without killing 10.1.5 again in case I have to go
>>back again. It took two weeks to recover everything last year when I
>>tried 10.2. I am hoping that there are some 10.2.1+ installation CDs
>>that will install for me. I am playing with ccclone 1.3.1 to recreate
>>my boot disk on partition 2 of a SCSI disk. My current boot drive is
>>a 6 GB SCSI partition on a 40 GB SCSI drive. Partition 2 is the same
>>Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
>
> How much free space did you have on the boot partition?

I use external SCSI. Originally I started with an 8 GB partition.
Then Apple said I needed to be at 6 GB. I finally used 5.9 GB to
reinstall 10.1.5. This was the first partition on the drive.