A few points to add to the good advice others have contributed:
- As folks have said, Tiger must be installed on the first partition, and the partition should be smaller than 7.45GB (7.45GB binary is approximately 8 billion bytes)
- HOWEVER, it is unlikely that formatting your partition to 7.5GB or 8GB is your problem here. The partition-size problem usually only manifests itself if and when System files start to be located beyond the first 8GB of the boot drive. So in other words, the partition problem doesn't usually result in system instability right away.
- For me, problems installing Tiger (or Panther, for that matter) on beige G3s have most often happened when I've had two HDs in the computer, or when I've tried to install onto a HD set to slave. My recommendation would be to install Tiger with only one internal HD installed in the beige; and to have it be set to master and be the only device on that IDE bus.
- Also, if your machine's 300MHz status is overclocked, or if the bus speed is upclocked from 66MHz (to 83MHz), you might want to undo that during the initial installation and boot up.
- Finally, I have also found that there are some beige G3s that simply won't play nice with XPostFacto Panther or Tiger installs. In those rare instances, I've found, the best thing is to just install OS 9.2.2 and enjoy one of the fastest OS 9 machines around.
Good luck!
M
- As folks have said, Tiger must be installed on the first partition, and the partition should be smaller than 7.45GB (7.45GB binary is approximately 8 billion bytes)
- HOWEVER, it is unlikely that formatting your partition to 7.5GB or 8GB is your problem here. The partition-size problem usually only manifests itself if and when System files start to be located beyond the first 8GB of the boot drive. So in other words, the partition problem doesn't usually result in system instability right away.
- For me, problems installing Tiger (or Panther, for that matter) on beige G3s have most often happened when I've had two HDs in the computer, or when I've tried to install onto a HD set to slave. My recommendation would be to install Tiger with only one internal HD installed in the beige; and to have it be set to master and be the only device on that IDE bus.
- Also, if your machine's 300MHz status is overclocked, or if the bus speed is upclocked from 66MHz (to 83MHz), you might want to undo that during the initial installation and boot up.
- Finally, I have also found that there are some beige G3s that simply won't play nice with XPostFacto Panther or Tiger installs. In those rare instances, I've found, the best thing is to just install OS 9.2.2 and enjoy one of the fastest OS 9 machines around.
Good luck!
M