Beige G3 - Wont Upgrade to 10.2 from 10.1

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safarixsafarix
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Recently I decided to upgrade my Rev. A Beige G3 233 Minitower with the Apple configured 9gb USCSI drive.



I installed the SCSI patch in 9, formatted and installed 10.1.4, then upgraded that to 10.1.5.



Anytime I try to install 10.2 (retail CD version 6C115), the install process decides to stop at "Preparing the Disk."



I really want to use iTunes music sharing, and need 10.2.4+ for it. I have tried both a retail set of Jaguar discs (10.2) and an upgrade set of Jaguar discs (10.2). Is there anything I am doing wrong?



Also, after this process happens (or doesn't happen I should say), I can't reboot into 10.1.5, it throws me into open firmware and refuses to recognize the previous X install. Can anyone *please* help me get 10.2 on here? I appreiate any help in advance.

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    A friend had problems installing on a similar machine, all we got to work was finally putting his hard drive in a newer machine and installing Jag on that, then swapping the hard drive back. It's not a real solution but it worked in one situation. Good luck...
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    not unlike myselfnot unlike myself Posts: 2,037member
    Can you do a full 9 install. Fix the patches, then DON'T format, just do an install over top. Then once you have Panther running toss the old System Folder.
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  • Reply 3 of 3
    graphicumpgraphicump Posts: 82member
    With the beige, you must install Jag completely within the first 8 GB of the hard drive.



    This means you have to have the first partition be LESS than 8 GB (7.8 GB worked on my old Beige G3/300) and another partition for the rest.
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