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yooper124
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Dual G4 533 Mz to OS 10.4 - 2008/09/06 17:07 I have a dual G4 533Mz Mac with two hard drives (40 and 60 Gs) and 1 G of RAM. I was running OS 9.2.2. I did a clean install of OS9 et al and then I installed Tiger (10.4) along with I-Life 5. I could not get the computer to boot up. I finally got it going in OS X with the disk as I had to edit a year end video for the school where I work, but haven't been able to again.
Does anyone know why I can't get it to boot up? Is the computer not powerful enough? Would 10.2 be better? I do not have a lot of technical experience...I"m more into the creative end of it.
I have the original Final Cut Pro and FCP3 upgrade, which I have used for a while. Supposedly you can run FCP3 in either OS9 or X, and since FCP runs better in OS X, I am told, I wanted to try running it in X, but couldn't get the FCP3 upgrade to work in Tiger. At the very least, I would like to be able to use I-Life 5.
Thanks.
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krowmagnum
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Dual G4 533 Mz to OS 10.4 - 2008/09/06 20:00 Your DP533 is fully supported for OS 10.4 so the problem is elsewhere. I had OS 10.5 running on a DP 500 Digital Audio G4 just to see how it runs and it did surprisingly well considering OS 10.5 requires a 867MHz G4 or faster. (there are ways around that)

OS 10.2 won't be any faster than 10.4 and probably a little slower. OS 10.3 may be just a bit faster than 10.4 but not enough to notice usually if at all.

You have plenty of RAM with 1GB but OS X can pbe very picky about RAM specs. What may work just fine in OS 9 may not work at all in OS X, or cause kernel panics.

What exactly does it do when you power on the G4 ?


Does it still boot OS 9 ok ?
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Michael B. in Cincinnati
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Dual G4 533 Mz to OS 10.4 - 2008/09/07 19:40 I also have a dual 533 G4 DA, and it runs 10.4 and 9.2.2, both as a dual-boot OS and using the 10.4 simulation mode. I have 1.5 GB of RAM, but I don't believe that that's an issue; mine ran fine on 768 MB, which is what it had when I first bought it. I installed 10.4.11 on the primary 80GB drive, and then added a second drive connected to the original IDE controller onto which I installed 9.2.2. I believe that one needs to install 9.2.2 on the first partition on whichever drive; I don't know if that's true for 10.4, but I do have that first 80 GB drive set up with only OSX. Are your two OS's set up on different drives, or different partitions?
- Michael B. in Cincinnati

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harryb
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Dual G4 533 Mz to OS 10.4 - 2008/09/20 17:01 One question yooper.

Did you install OS 9.2.2 and then go to the Apple web site and download the latest firmware update, which is probably 4.2.8f1 for your machine before commencing the OS X install?

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krowmagnum
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Dual G4 533 Mz to OS 10.4 - 2008/09/21 02:10 Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote:
I believe that one needs to install 9.2.2 on the first partition on whichever drive; I don't know if that's true for 10.4, but I do have that first 80 GB drive set up with only OSX. Are your two OS's set up on different drives, or different partitions?

The first partition is something that only applies to OS X installed on the earliest G3's where OS X had to be installed on the first 8GB of the drive. There are no other "partitioning or installing limitations" on anything else.

And it does not matter where you install OS 9. You do not need to use a different partition for OS 9 either and will fully boot into OS 9 installed on the same drive, same partition as OS X. Or on a second drive or second partition, it makes no difference.
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