[Osx-nutters] Absolute minimum

[Jeff Hergan]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:

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> On 4 Oct 2006, at 06:25, Jeff Hergan wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Which version of Mac OS X did you install?

10.4.8

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>> 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.
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> The 350 MHz is supported by up to 10.3.9.

Ugh.  That's the problem.
And I don't have 10.3x
I used to have it--it came with my eMac.
Now, it's gone.  And so is the eMac.  So, if I wanted to install it  
on a disk, I'd have to install it to a USB drive connected to the new  
iMac (if you can install on a USB drive at all).
Then I could swap out the IDE drive from the USB drive and put it in  
the iMac.

> 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?

No.  Just the RAM from the G4 eMac

Jeff