Tiger on iMac G3 350 MHz

[ghking]

I have the Tiger installation CD's that came with my eMac. I was wondering if it would be possible to install tiger on my iMac G3 even though its below the minimum system requirements. Heres what its got-

- CPU: 350 MHz PPC 750
- bus: 100 MHz
- performance: 1005, MacBench 5.0 (Power Mac G3/300 = 1000); 100, Speedmark
- RAM: 64 MB, expandable to 1,024 MB using two PC100 SDRAM (3.3 V, 64-bit, 168-pin, 100 MHz)
- VRAM: 8 MB SGRAM
- Video: supports resolutions of 640 x 480, 800 x 600, and 1024 x 768 using ATI RAGE Pro 128 chip set
- monitor: 15" (13.8" viewable) multiscan to 1024 x 768
- L2 cache: 512 KB 140 MHz (5:2) backside cache
- hard drive: 7 GB EIDE drive. Maximum IDE drive size is 128 GB without third-party support.
- CD-ROM: 24x maximum throughput
- USB: 2 separate USB 1.1 ports and controllers
- FireWire: none

 

[J@ffa]

http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/

I thought the thread title said 'Leopard' for a moment, I managed to catch it before I started ROFLing from here to Timbuktu.

 

[Maxiseller]

A quick google search will help in installing tiger on not-officially supported machines.

The question is, do you really want to? Tiger runs sluggishly on my girlfriends ibook with 512 ram - you'd be better off going to 10.3

 

[Father Jack]

I don't think so.

I think your eMac install disks can only be used on eMac's ....

Sorry meant to say, you can install Tiger, but not with your eMac disks. (as far as I know)

 

[ghking]

yeah i know 10.3 or something would be better but i dont have the installation disks for anything lower.

And how slow exactly? i dont think i would use it that much so it wouldnt be that big of a deal but if it like will basicaly not work at all than it wouldnt be worth it

 

[tersono]

yeah i know 10.3 or something would be better but i dont have the installation disks for anything lower.

And how slow exactly? i dont think i would use it that much so it wouldnt be that big of a deal but if it like will basicaly not work at all than it wouldnt be worth it

Actually, Tiger works acceptably well on a G3-350 (it's supported on the Blue/White G3s - I used to use one as a file server running Tiger) it's just supposed only to work with machines that support firewire...

Just make sure you've got plenty of RAM and enough disk space - you'll need at least 10-15 Gb free after you've installed Tiger + Apps.

 

[ghking]

so the hd i have now will be too small?

 

[mc68k]

i can send you 10.3 if you want it, tiger on that comp as a desktop is going to suck even with high memory-- unless u use it as a server

ubuntu linux is super cool (and free) on old hardware if you want to try that out. heres a link to some cd images:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/

 

[ghking]

yea if you could send me 10.3 that would be awesome. it will probably have a better chance of working. Not a big fan of linux though. too sketchy.