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?
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?