Installer Leopard Sur Ibook G3
Idea's in modding a Apple iBook G3/300 (Original/Clamshell) i just got a Clamshell Ibook from somebody i doesn't work at all liquid damage looks like since.
I would try an as a starting point an build up what you need from that.Using the alternate Ubuntu CD's a command line install is straightforward and gives you a basic starting point. You can add whatever you like, depending on what resources you end up having available. Play around with different configurations and check them out using the command line tool free, if you're so inclined.The base Ubuntu (command line only) uses only 39MB memory (peak), 19MB buffer adjusted. After installing packages to make it all windowy (X, openbox, firefox, etc), it ended up at 446MB peak, 120MB buffer adjusted.I am not sure how the base PPC build will compare, but I guess they will be close. You could take a look at for some inspiration on creating a lightweight Ubuntu based installation. OS X seems sluggish mostly because of the memory hungry nature of modern OS X applications. If you use applications ported to Cocoa from Linux, where throwing expansive hardware at performance issues is less standard practice, then you can find that the bare bones of OS X aren't as sluggish as you thought.The key is to be ruthless in rejecting resource hogs: besides applications that are always spinning pizzas, look to eliminate applications that undermine overall performance, such as Mail (often wakes up and swaps its great bulk in), and programs with large resident size (look at output of ps).
Some tips:.Using Emacs is probably the best first step you can take: you can use it instead of Terminal, Mail (you'll need to use postfix to deliver your mail to a local folder), as well as most other text editors.Browser choice is the hard one. There are very lightweight X11 browsers, like, but they are not fully featured, and switching between X11 and Aqua isn't smooth.
Is probably the nippiest fully-fledged browser, but given the nature of todays web, even that will seem sluggish on such hardware.Try to use a text browser alongside a graphical browser (Emacs has a w3-mode for text browsing) and shut down the graphical browser from time to time.The brutal truth is that the modern web browsing experience assumes you have more than 256M: on Ubuntu is snappier than Firefox on OS X, but even there, its not the best.
If you wanted an external drive for booting a PowerPC Mac, you officially needed a FireWire one. But it seems some PowerPC Macs can boot from USB.I just picked up a with a broken optical drive. It only had a CD-ROM drive, which meant I couldn’t use it for burning disks or reading a DVD.
Installing would be tricky, as it came on DVD unless you contacted Apple, and then they would swap it for a CD version – but these are hard to come by now.In the past I used a FireWire iPod to install Tiger and on G3 and G4 Macs. More recently I have used a USB flash drive to install, s, and on my MacBook.Following a similar method, I created a USB flash drive containing the Tiger installer. Create The InstallerInsert your Tiger DVD into another Mac running OS X and plug in your USB stick. I used Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite to do this, but any version of Mac OS X from Tiger upwards should work.Open Disk Utility and click on the DVD labelled Mac OS X Install DVD on the left side. Then select the Restore tab. The Source field will be filled in already. Then drag your USB stick from the left pane to the Destination field.Note: Make sure you select the partition and not the drive itself for the destination.
In my case using 8.06GB USB 2.0 SD MMC resulted in an error, I had to select Untitled.Then click Restore. It will ask for your user password and then sit back and wait.
Mine took about 20 minutes to complete. Once done, both the DVD drive and the USB stick will open up and both will show the OSX installer files. Modify the DiskTo install Tiger on early Clamshells, you will need to modify the installation DVD. The Tiger installer cut out support for any G3 that doesn’t have FireWire, but this can easily be sorted by removing the badmachines line from OSinstall.dist file on the installer DVD.You can find instructions on. Boot ItOnce done, simply eject the USB stick and insert it in the USB port on your Clamshell. For this to work for me, I had to ensure there was no disc in the CD drive of the Clamshell.Hold down C and power on the Clamshell. Keep the C key pressed until you see the big grey Apple logo on the screen.Keep in mind the USB port on the Clamshell is only USB 1.1, so speeds won’t be amazing – but to be honest, it was faster than I expected.
Ibook G3 Clamshell
It only took a minute to get to the installer screen.From then on, you install as normal. USB DVDI have also used an external USB DVD drive to attempt to install OS 9, and it booted fine holding down the C key. Later ClamshellsThis is most beneficial to the first generation Clamshells that shipped with a CD-ROM drive and a single USB 1.1 port. Later models came with DVD-ROM drives and a FireWire port. Other MacsWhile this won’t work for all PowerPC Macs, there are other models it will work on. It would be interesting to know if it would work for (which were the desktop equivalent of the Clamshells), as these also have CD-ROM drives and no FireWire. ConclusionThis is a very handy hint to know and proof that some pre-Intel Macs can be booted from USB.Follow Simon Royal on or send him an.Like what you have read?
Installer Leopard Sur Ibook G3 Laptop
Send Simon a donation via.keywords: #clamshellibook #usbboot #techspectrum #simonroyalshort link: clamshellusbbooting.