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Installing Tiger on a G3 iMac

shu82 said:
I like you're new sig. I seem to have that same voice screaming in my head. I am rebuilding a flower power right now. Also I am going to nashville tomorrow to trade a 1.5 G4 powerbook for a G5 imac! I Guess i will get a G4 next. But those G3s are just to good looking! I hope that DVD fixes your problem.
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Thanks :D . I saw a Flower Power one on eBay that looked interesting....I like the way G4's look but since everyone does, they're hard to come by at a good price.

The DVD definitely fixed it. After it went past 69% on installing Essentials, I was excited.
 
classof2011 said:
But how do I disable Spotlight and Dashboard? Spotlight is pretty useful to me, though I don't really need Dashboard on.
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Once Spotlight has finished indexing your entire drive the first time, it really doesn't do much henceforth and is probably best to leave it on.

If you remove all your widgets by holding down Option, moving the mouse over each widget, and clicking the "X" that appears, and then go to "Manage Widgets" and disable all of them, then also remove "Manage Widgets," and never invoke Dashboard, it also doesn't take up any resources.

Also, you can remove the Dashboard icon from your dock. I always thought it looked stupid there anyway.
 
It's funny that the machine costs less than buying an installation of Tiger. It just goes to show that they're very capable machines.

I'm writing from a powermac cube with 1.25gb of RAM, an 80gb hard drive, and a Superdrive. It performs 95% of my needs perfectly. Old machines can still give lots of great use. Enjoy your imac!
 
Spotlight might not be that bad to keep around, AFTER it finishes indexing your files.

As far as Dashboard goes, just never call it up. I think the dashboard apps don't launch by default, which is why they're so slow to come up the first time you call up Dashboard. So you can disable F12 for that.

There's probably some other way too, I just don't know it.

classof2011 said:
It worked!!! I got a Tiger DVD in and I installed it successfully!!! It is up-to-date and all.

But how do I disable Spotlight and Dashboard? Spotlight is pretty useful to me, though I don't really need Dashboard on.

Also got it to work with the 40GB hard drive, so it's going well! It's current specs are :

400MHz / 40GB HDD / 512MB RAM / OS X 10.4.10 :)
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classof2011 said:
It worked!!! I got a Tiger DVD in and I installed it successfully!!! It is up-to-date and all.

But how do I disable Spotlight and Dashboard? Spotlight is pretty useful to me, though I don't really need Dashboard on.

Also got it to work with the 40GB hard drive, so it's going well! It's current specs are :

400MHz / 40GB HDD / 512MB RAM / OS X 10.4.10 :)
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Remove all widgets and also disable the methods for accessing it. That'll make it go away. You can't really turn it off though.
 
Having an issue with 10.4 installation

Hello all,

I was searching for a solution to an issue I am having with reinstalling 10.4 on an old imac (G3 slot loading, 350MHz). I've had 10.4 running on it with no issues for the last year but the last update froze the machine. Not knowing what to do & suspecting it was to much for my old mac, went the route of reinstalling 10.4 & just not downloading the update that caused all the issues. In the process of finishing the installation the process stalls out on disk 4. The screen says optimizing performance or something of that nature & the bar showing how close you are to being done is about 80% complete. It's done this about 3 times.

I've used macs since the mid 80's, & even had a Lisa prior to the first mac 128 (upgraded to 256!!!).

This is basically my backup machine, I use a PowerBook G4. I had loaned it to a friend & they ran the update. The only after market item added to the the mac was a gig of ram.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help,

Stroller
 
There is no reason a Software Update would just *break* a supported machine. You always want to run the latest update available for your OS.

What you're describing sounds like you may have a bad hard drive. Boot back into the Mac OS CD, go to Disk Utility and verify your disk and see what happens.
 
Thanks for the Response

I actually ran Check it on the HD & found no issues. I also ran another utility that found no issues.

I thought the whole thing was strange. The only thing I've not done is run a surface scan.

I didn't think an update would cause issues, but that's when it froze.
 
Hmmmm

Well then, is it time to pull the 6 gig drive & replace with something else. I need to do some searching I guess to see who has a cheap drive.
 
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