Re: ADVICE NEEDED: installing OS X on a formerly OS 9 machine
- From: Steve Hix <sehix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:19:39 -0700
In article <1hg4iup.137zs8s79rnr4N%nono@xxxxxxx>,
nono@xxxxxxx (Preacher) wrote:
I am trying to install OS X (either 10.3 or 10.4) on a 2-3 old Macs --
an ibook300, an iMac333,
These don't have FireWire built in, so 10.3 for them.
and a b&w PowerMac 400.
This one does, so 10.4 works. You'll want more than 512MB memory; 768MB
is OK, 1GB better.
These systems have
relatively small HDs (6 gig, 10 gig, 10 gig), and so I'm thinking of
trying to wipe the HDs clean and install OS X only. Obviously, that
would maximize HD space. But is going with OS X only a foolish thing to
do?
No. Remember to upgrade their firmware, as appropriate, before you make
the change. You can't do it from OS X on these machines.
Most of what will be done on these systems is word processing, e-mail,
and web browsing; I was just looking for more stability than OS 9 has
given.
Should work fine. More ambitious work becomes less rewarding, unless you
start upgrading graphics/mass storage, and at that point, you can
probably get a new Mini for around the same cost.
.
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