[Osx-nutters] Absolute minimum

[Matt Johnston]

On 4 Oct 2006, at 06:25, Jeff Hergan wrote:

> I took your advice and put a hard drive with OS X already installed  
> in my ancient iMac slot-loading 350mhz (4.1.9 rom).
> When I boot, it stops at a folder with the Mac smiley face blinking  
> in it.

Which version of Mac OS X did you install?

> I zapped the pram (when was the last time you had to do that?) but  
> no luck.
> So I'm thinking that this is because I only have the original 64mb  
> of ram.  OS X requires, iirc , at least 128, or 256.

The 350 MHz is supported by up to 10.3.9. But you do need a little  
bit more RAM. An extra 64 MB would make it run slowly and annoyingly.  
Don't you have any PC100/PC133 RAM in another machine (any pre-MDD  
G4?) which would be borrowed to test it?
> Am I right?
>
> I don't want to buy old RAM if it aint gonna work anyway.