A backwards Mac

[JoesMorgue]

I have a G3 Mac and I thinks my OS is unstable, so I wants to re-install it.

The problem is, I only have iPC Live. Can I install it on this Mac?

[spalek83]

no, you need the retail copy

[xXrkidXx]

Go out and buy a Leopard retail disc. Or.. Well it's up to you.

[JoesMorgue]

Its a G3 runing at 350 Mhz...

The speed is not an issue, I can deal, as I have 5 Winders machines while this does intensive stuff.

Would I even be able to run it?

I have a G4, but I added another SIMM, and it no longer functions. I took that one out. Reorganized them. Reset the MB, removed the battery. Swapped the vid card...NOTHING! I don't wanna mess inside this one (although I swapped out the CD for the DVD in my sig) just in case...

Originally Posted by xXrkidXx Go out and buy a Leopard retail disc. Or.. Well it's up to you.

[00010]

No the G3 could not run Leopard, you need a copy of Tiger. Which is hard to get.


00010

[milanca]

I have G4 DP500, gigabit ethernet model, and i p****d blood until i found retail 10.4 ppc dvd. It was dead for a long time and last summer i decided to revive it again.

Tiger should work fine i suppose on 350Mhz, if not then 10.3.9 will do the job. I think i have 10.3 installs somewhere, even 10.2 if i remember correctly.

[JoesMorgue]

Right now, it is running Tiger and except for a few programs crashing, it seems to handle it just fine so I know it can do that much.

Where am I missing on Leopard? I know with PCs, newer CPU chips have new commands inside them which is why you can't do some upgrades. What is the difference between the G3 and the G4?

[00010]

Well to put in in English, the G3 is way to slow to run Leopard. The processor is compatible, but the Leopard installer DVD has a requirement of 867Mhz or better to run the Leopard installer, If I remember correctly there is a few ways in Open Firmware to hack an install onto "Unsupported Hardware" or a patched PPC installer DVD you can make with a new requirement edited in. Or you can install on another Mac and transplant the Leopard drive into the G3.


00010

[JoesMorgue]

First: With Winders, (sorry) you really can't transplant the HD because VERY FEW machines match hardware, and there are drivers for everything. I didn't thinks it could be done but then again, we are talking OS X.

Second: Is the code bloated? Is there more going on behind the scenes? Will it just be like what I'm seeing now? Like I said, lack of speed I can deal with. My old PC used to take about 18 HOURS to process, then another 3-4 hours to get ready to actually prepare the burn a single layer DVD. (Yeah, we used it to do other things while it was doing that too.) We just accepted it, and tried to start them late at night, so while we slept and most of us were out of the house it just chugged away at it.

Originally Posted by 00010 Well to put in in English, the G3 is way to slow to run Leopard. The processor is compatible, but the Leopard installer DVD has a requirement of 867Mhz or better to run the Leopard installer, If I remember correctly there is a few ways in Open Firmware to hack an install onto "Unsupported Hardware" or a patched PPC installer DVD you can make with a new requirement edited in. Or you can install on another Mac and transplant the Leopard drive into the G3. 00010

[milanca]

Originally Posted by JoesMorgue First: With Winders, (sorry) you really can't transplant the HD because VERY FEW machines match hardware, and there are drivers for everything. I didn't thinks it could be done but then again, we are talking OS X.

Not true. What 00010 meant is instead of patching OSInstall script to allow installing for example Leopard on PPC<867Mhz, you can use supported machine, install on it and then take the HDD out and put in unsupported machine. Hard drives are pretty much the same, they all use IDE drives. I even used SATA drive in my G4 with simple IDE->SATA adapter. But that's different thing so yes, you can fool the installer by simply swapping hard drives.