What should I do?
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Name: KevinS.
Date: August 3, 2008 at 16:13:20 Pacific
Subject: What should I do?OS: None YetCPU/Ram: PPC 500mhz 256MBModel/Manufacturer: iMac G3 2001 |
Comment: Hello.
I got an imac for $40 at a garage sale. It has 256MB of RAM and a PPC 500mhz processer. It came with the restore disk for Mac OSX 10.1.2. For some reason the mac restore disk does not see the hard drive, so I can't restore it. I have already tried different hard drives and I still couldn't get it to find it. I have tried installing linux and it finds the hard drive just fine and it installs. But the linux distros' I have tried are so slow on it that they are unusable. I would like to get this computer working again. Hopefully with OSX, but a linux distro would be fine too. Please help me. I don't want to be out my $40 and have a big paperweight around.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Joshua Coventry
Date: August 4, 2008 at 11:35:13 Pacific
Subject: What should I do? |
Reply: (edit)You don't want to use OS X 10.1.2. Hardly any current
software works on it, and it's awfully buggy and unstable
(and slow!). Get Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (the previous version, the current is
10.5). It runs very well on PPC machines with low memory. Once you have Tiger 10.4 (you can buy it on eBay cheap),
boot from the disc. Choose Disk Utility from the Utilities
menu. Select your hard drive and erase it completely, which
will redo the partition. The 10.4 installer should be able to
see the hard drive afterwards. Hope this helps! Joshua Coventry
Mac dude
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Response Number 2
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Name: KevinS.
Date: August 4, 2008 at 14:50:47 Pacific
Subject: What should I do? |
Reply: (edit)I was not able to find a Tiger 10.4 CD Version. This computer does not have a DVD drive. I could get Panther 10.3 off ebay for real cheap. Should I put a Linux distro on the computer, or should I install Panther?
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Response Number 4
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Name: KevinS.
Date: August 5, 2008 at 07:29:25 Pacific
Subject: What should I do? |
Reply: (edit)I am trying to get my hands on a copy of Panther. I found some on ebay that I will start to bid on. I also found some 512MB RAM on ebay for real cheap that I will purchase.
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Response Number 5
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Name: KevinS.
Date: August 5, 2008 at 11:03:49 Pacific
Subject: What should I do? |
Reply: (edit)I got the Panther Discs and a 512mb stick of RAM off ebay. I will post back when I get them in the mail.
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Response Number 6
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Name: KevinS.
Date: August 10, 2008 at 05:50:25 Pacific
Subject: What should I do? |
Reply: (edit)I got Panther installed. I am now just waiting for the RAM.
Before I installed Panther I replaced the 20GB Drive with a
60GB one. Thanks for the help.
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