Can't Install Tiger on Blue&White G3 PowerMac

[ll350]

OK, this started out as a charity build, but I digress...

Specs:
G3 350 Mhz
1 Gb [4x256 MB] PC 100 Ram

OK, First I installed Mac OS 9.2.1, everything was fine.

Then I set up a second partition, and installed OS 10.3 Panther, and still everything is fine.

So then I tried installing Tiger,
It goes up until the installer says "Installing Essentials" it even got to 100% of this part.
Then the installer will hang,
sometimes that screen comes up saying that "your system requires a reboot, press restart"
sometimes the installer program itself will say there has been an error, and to try installing again.

The real kicker is, now I can't seem to get Panther to install, and I can't even seem to get the Mac OS 9.2.1 disc to boot!

any help will be appreciated. If anyone can tell me where it is, and I can get to it, I can try to post the installer log if it will help. I viewed it once, but can't recall the details.

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Oh, the only hardware that changed between working/and non-working configurations was that I installed the SuperDrive from a G5 PowerMac, since I needed an internal dvd drive to boot from to install Tiger. I had been using this in an external enclosure, and have changed/modified the firmware of the drive since it was removed from the PowerMac G5. have also swapped out the hard drive after the problems started occurring, but with now real change in results.

 

[TheStu]

Well, since you have a copy of Tiger available to you, that I will assume, for the sake of argument, to be legal then you can simply get the CD version from your favorite place to acquire illegitimate software. That was how I installed it on my G4 PowerBook since my DVD was all scratched up and I only had a CD burner.

 

[Stiganator]

It could be a hardware problem too, PC100 RAM is mighty old at this point and those harddisks have put in a lot of spins. You can check on apple's support site which hardware is supported by tiger, leopard. I know leopard needs G4 1.2 GHz I think and Tiger I thought needed 500 MHz or better.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
It could be a hardware problem too, PC100 RAM is mighty old at this point and those harddisks have put in a lot of spins. You can check on apple's support site which hardware is supported by tiger, leopard. I know leopard needs G4 1.2 GHz I think and Tiger I thought needed 500 MHz or better.

last I heard, it was a 400MHz G3 (or maybe a 450MHz) for Tiger, and an 867MHz G4 for Leopard.

 

[nervegrind3r]

I think if it were a system compatibility issue (not meeting min requirements), the installer would tell you off the bat. Try installing tiger fresh from the disc; before installing, run disk utility, format the drive with one partition, and then install tiger. If it works, you can install classic support within tiger, no need to install 9.2 on its own partition, and no reason to install panther either.

EDIT: CPU speed is not a factor in the system requirements of tiger:

* A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
* Built-in FireWire
* At least 256 MB of RAM
* DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
* At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools

 

[umrigar]

http://lowendmac.com/mail/mb07/0911.html#7

"Be aware that Revision 1 motherboards in the B&W aren't stable with modern IDE hard drives connected to the built in IDE controller. You can get around this by using a PCI controller instead of the built in controller. Some of the 400 MHz B&Ws had Revision 1 motherboards. B&Ws with the Revision 2 motherboard are capable of reliably running modern IDE hard drives."