Installing 10.3 on a 400MHz G4

[kap]

Not sure if it is wise but I am taking my chances. The installation is 3/4 finished. Should I proceed with 10.4.x? How much RAM can I increase? Is it even worthy? Tia

Update:
G4 400 MHz with 100 MHz bus
L2Cache= 1 MB
RAM=576 MB

[silvarios]

Power Mac G4? Single proc right? I think it will take 2GB (only 1.5GB recognized in Mac OS 9). Tiger will run fine on it. Why did you need to install Panther before installing Tiger?


Nathan

[Speedy]

Yes, go for 10.4. And go for at least 1 GB RAM. No, it is not worthy.

[Jimmypoo]

Got Tiger on a Pismo (G3/400) with 512MB. Runs fine. Flash is out of the question, but that's a video
card limit.

Had Tiger on G4 Smurf - at 450MHz. No problem at all. Had a gig of RAM in that one, but started at 512
then 768 then the gig.

You'll have no trouble.

[kap]

silvarios wrote:
Power Mac G4? Single proc right? I think it will take 2GB (only 1.5GB recognized in Mac OS 9). Tiger will run fine on it. Why did you need to install Panther before installing Tiger?


Nathan

I cannot find my Tiger install disc

[ka jowct]

More RAM will help. What are you doing with the machine? I have a G4/450 here, with Tiger installed, but all I use it for is backup and storage. I added a Gigabit ethernet card and an SATA card, plus SATA drives. I find it too slow for anything else.

[john-o]

Panther is EOL... No plugin updates, Safari version fails at a lot of sites, etc., etc.

Tiger is the bottom rung now. I've seen it run fine on tons of old G4 machines, for sure.

Good luck!
John

[kap]

john-o wrote:
Panther is EOL... No plugin updates, Safari version fails at a lot of sites, etc., etc.

Tiger is the bottom rung now. I've seen it run fine on tons of old G4 machines, for sure.

Good luck!
John

Yep, it's happening! Couldn't find an older version of FF so II installed iCab 4.7. It works better than Safari. Still, I cannot access several websites and really buggy with this forum. I have to find my Tiger disc.

ka jowct,
This machine was given to us by a graphic designer friend who was relocating to another city. Originally, it was intent for DVD movie playing in our bedroom but it turned out to be not so great an idea (I have posted about the setup in previous thread). Now I am configuring as an education computer for our 10 year old cousin. While I am doing that I am test-running with web-surfing and email.

[silvarios]

kap,
While iCab will work with older versions of OS X, it is still limited to the old version of Webkit installed with 10.3 and 10.4.


Nathan

[silvarios]

kap,
I must have missed the older DVD thread. Just read it. Okay.

My fault, this is a PowerBook G4. 1GB max RAM by the way. Not sure why a simple VGA cable to the LCD would not work for what you are trying to do. Plus the audio plug to your Dell speakers. Sure, you would have to stand up and walk over to the PB to pause the movie, but that's not much of a hardship.

Since you already seem to have all the necessary components, I would think giving the setup a try would not waste anything, but 10 minutes of setup time.


Nathan