OK. Just bought a rev. 2 G3/400 w/ 384 ram for $50.
Got a good deal because I bought it from a good friend
who had absolutely no use for it anymore. I cannot for
the life of me get OS 10.2 properly installed on it. It
keeps freezing during the second install disc (during a
different spot each time) and is unstable when restarted. I
have tried two different hard drives with different jumper
settings, partitioning the hard drive (which I understood
you shouldn't have to do on a B&W, and yes I used the
first 8 gig), reseating the RAM, removing all extra PCI
cards and unplugging any unnecessary cables, installing
OS9 first, different versions of OSX (10.2 and 10.2.3,
though I could still try 10.1.4), preventing power save
mode during install, standing on my head, etc. Nothing
was ever any different. And yes, these are legitimate OSX
discs.
The weird thing is that when I put my old hard drive in
(that was used on a beige G3 with OS 10.2.5 on the first
partition and 9.2.2 on the second), it worked without any
hassle. This leads me to believe that nothing is defective.
Unfortunately, both of my hard drives are now empty. I'm
thinking that I could probably use my old beige G3 to at
least get OSX back on a drive, but I'd rather not because
that would mean more partitioning, and I was hoping to
just use a separate drive for each OS. HELP!
As an extra note, I installed OS 9.2.2 on the new machine
and had it running fine with the same hard drive(s).
Also, I am considering partitioning the larger of the two
hard drives and only using that one, but it's not very big,
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