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Project Alice

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I am attempting to install Tiger on my Wallstreet PowerBook G3; and I am unable to boot the installer due to a looping “waiting for root device” which according to XPF’s documentation is a symptom of an “incompatible CD-ROM device”.

Being a G3 Wallstreet leaves me with little options. It can’t network boot to my knowledge and if it could XPF wouldn’t boot from network. I don’t have another optical drive, it doesn’t have FW or USB.
It does however have an 80GB hard drive in it. I figured I would clone a Tiger installer to another partition on the drive and install it that way. But, I already have Mac OS 9 and Jaguar on a small partition (~7.9GB); and one other partition which is the rest of the drive. I would prefer to keep both OS 9 and Jaguar in tact, but this means I have to split up the large partition to accommodate the Tiger installer as well a place to install Tiger.

Well, iPartition 3 seems to require Tiger and it’s the only version on the Macintosh Garden. So, does anyone have any ideas? Or perhaps an older OS 9 or Jaguar compatible version so I can repartition this drive without starting all over.

I know I could just pull the drive out, but I don’t really feel like doing that. It also feels a little like cheating and where’s the fun in that?
 
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Try to search for FWB Partition Toolkit. Other tool able to do what you want was DiskStudio (version 1.0.1 AFAIR). It even had a bootable CD version.
 
Try to search for FWB Partition Toolkit. Other tool able to do what you want was DiskStudio (version 1.0.1 AFAIR). It even had a bootable CD version.
I’ll check that out, thank you.
I have a copy of iPartition 1.0.6 if you're interested.
That would be great! Even if the above suggestion works, having more than one version archived on the Garden would be good.
 
Is it difficult to remove the drive and do modifications using a newer Mac?
 
Hey, just wanted to ask about your Wallstreet.
I got OS 9 on mine with an SSD, but whenever I tried to boot Jaguar, it wouldn't work and would revert to OS 9.

Did you have to do any hacks or use XPF to make Jaguar boot? (Did you format your HD within OS 9?)
 
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Hey, just wanted to ask about your Wallstreet.
I got OS 9 on mine with an SSD, but whenever I tried to boot Jaguar, it wouldn't work and would revert to OS 9.

Did you have to do any hacks or use XPF to make Jaguar boot? (Did you format your HD within OS 9?)

Is the Jaguar partition fully within the first 8 GB?
I had no issues booting Jaguar on my PDQ but it disabled the LCD’s backlight when loading the GUI unless I booted 9 first and warm-booted Jaguar which was pretty annoying.

I actually had issues getting Jaguar on mine. Though it is officially supported, it wouldn’t boot without the help of XpostFacto. I encountered similar problems on my Beige G3 tower (now a G4 with Tiger).
OldWorld Macs tend to be sort of random or hit and miss with OS X in the community.

Jaguar is in the first 8GB of my drive, just to make things easier. However with XPF that shouldn’t be necessary as you can select a “helper” drive. Which must be within the first 8GBs.

I probably used OS 9 to partition the drive yes, but I don’t remember. I don’t know why I wouldn’t have though.

Much like my Beige G4 OS 9 always starts first, then I can use XPF to boot into OS X.
 
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