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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / November 2005OS X Tiger on Powerbook G3 Lombard?
I have one of the "troubled" Lombards which runs OS 9 and OS 10.2 fine but Panther "broke it"... it freezes after a couple of minutes to a couple of hours. I have never been able to get a definitive answer on what the problem is, but there appears to be a class of these that have something called a "copper" processor which exhibit these symptoms with Panther. I was wondering if by any remote chance Tiger fixed the problem. Anyone have any experience they could share?  SignatureNelson Not sure if mine is one of the "troubled" G3 PowerBooks but it runs fine on all versions of Mac OSX up to 10.3.9. It is the 400 Mhz version and has 192 meg of RAM and seems to run all the applications that I ask it to. 10.4.x onwards needs at least the next version of the PowerBook, the firewire enabled Pismo. David > Not sure if mine is one of the "troubled" G3 PowerBooks but it runs > fine on all versions of Mac OSX up to 10.3.9. It is the 400 Mhz version > and has 192 meg of RAM and seems to run all the applications that I ask > it to. It is not one of the "troubled" ones then. Mine has never been able to run any version of OSX smoothly. > 10.4.x onwards needs at least the next version of the PowerBook, the > firewire enabled Pismo. What makes you believe Tiger needs a Pismo ? I think that's the Apple party line but there are several reports of people running it successfully on a Lombard. -- JohnB > > Not sure if mine is one of the "troubled" G3 PowerBooks but it runs > > fine on all versions of Mac OSX up to 10.3.9. It is the 400 Mhz version [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > I think that's the Apple party line but there are several reports of > people running it successfully on a Lombard. Isn't there a problem with _installing_ Tiger on a Lombard. My Lombard won't recognise the installation disk but runs 10.3 fine. Apparently there is a workaround which involves making a copy of the original disk, but I haven't bothered to try it... SignatureDavid Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy wrote: > Isn't there a problem with _installing_ Tiger on a Lombard. My Lombard > won't recognise the installation disk but runs 10.3 fine. Apparently > there is a workaround which involves making a copy of the original disk, > but I haven't bothered to try it... "The duchy of bessie's of the barn" - LOL !! My Lombard had every problem possible with every version of OSX. Hanging during install. Loaded and then hanging on boot up Loading and running for a day or two then kernel panicking every 5 mins. Having to take the HD out to install in a firewire case. Then not booting ..... and on and on it goes. Not tried Tiger yet but may give it a go if I have a wet sunday afternoon to amuse myself. -- JohnB > there are several reports of > people running it successfully on a Lombard. I'm successfully running 10.4 on a Lombard 333 MHz. As I've said before - she ain't no thoroughbred but she still works. Extracted the drive, put it a firewire enclosure, hooked up a cutting edge 2002 TiBook (!), installed 10.4 from there onto the FW enclosure, took it back out and slapped it back in the Lom. Takes a while but it works. Signaturehttp://www.intercuts.com/blog/ >>there are several reports of >>people running it successfully on a Lombard. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > took it back out and slapped it back in the Lom. Takes a while but it > works. Hugh - did the Lombard run earlier versions of X ok ? I have done what you describe for mine with Panther/Jaguar and it never ran smoothly. Cheers -- JohnB > Hugh - did the Lombard run earlier versions of X ok ? I have done what > you describe for mine with Panther/Jaguar and it never ran smoothly. > > Cheers Yes. There's a way of telling if your cpu is X-friendly - I think it's done via serial number I think - if you have a look on <http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/lombard.shtml>, one of their links ponts the way - sorry I can't be more specific. That lowendmac also suggests XpostFacto, although I never needed to use it. Signaturehttp://www.intercuts.com/blog/ |
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