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Hi everyone,
I've been going through the slow process of upgrading my G4 Cube and thought I'd try to install Tiger on it, just to see if it would work. I didn't expect it to with 128MB of RAM, but I was too impatient to wait for the new RAM to arrive in the post, yet it worked fine, if a little s-l-o-w, unsurprisingly.
However, the stock HDD is 20GB, and since I had a 160GB drive, I thought I'd try to put that in the Cube and use it. The drive has probably been formatted on an old XP computer, if that has any bearing. I put the HDD in the Cube and tried to boot off the first Tiger CD. It booted to a grey screen and that was it. It also swallowed the CD and wouldn't give it back with the Boot + Mouse button. I gave up and put the 20GB HDD back into the Cube and it all works fine.
I haven't tried everything I could, but it was late and I just wanted to be sure I hadn't messed up the Cube so put the old HDD back in.
Do I need to reformat the larger HDD? Would the original OS9 restore disks do this? I don't get the impression the Tiger CD was working (I tried 'C' on start-up). Anything else I could try?
Do the jumper settings need to be specific?
As much as the challenge of guessing my way through it would be fun, any help would be great!
David
I've been going through the slow process of upgrading my G4 Cube and thought I'd try to install Tiger on it, just to see if it would work. I didn't expect it to with 128MB of RAM, but I was too impatient to wait for the new RAM to arrive in the post, yet it worked fine, if a little s-l-o-w, unsurprisingly.
However, the stock HDD is 20GB, and since I had a 160GB drive, I thought I'd try to put that in the Cube and use it. The drive has probably been formatted on an old XP computer, if that has any bearing. I put the HDD in the Cube and tried to boot off the first Tiger CD. It booted to a grey screen and that was it. It also swallowed the CD and wouldn't give it back with the Boot + Mouse button. I gave up and put the 20GB HDD back into the Cube and it all works fine.
I haven't tried everything I could, but it was late and I just wanted to be sure I hadn't messed up the Cube so put the old HDD back in.
Do I need to reformat the larger HDD? Would the original OS9 restore disks do this? I don't get the impression the Tiger CD was working (I tried 'C' on start-up). Anything else I could try?
Do the jumper settings need to be specific?
As much as the challenge of guessing my way through it would be fun, any help would be great!
David