OSX Install experience by Jim:

Thomas,

First off, thanks for your very informative site.

I've owned a 6500/250 for some time now. It had always been a reliable 
work horse until the advent of OSX. But today, I get to bring her out 
of moth balls, all thanks to you.

Using XPostFacto 2.2, I was able to successfully install OSX 10.1 
without much trouble. First I installed a 2 partition 13 gig drive. 
Installed OS 9.1 on the second partition w/ XPF and installed 10.1 on 
the first (due to the 8 gb limit, naturally...).

Once I figured out NOT to use the Security Update that was offered by 
Software Update, rather download the 10.1 only version from Apple, I 
was able to update to 10.1.5 and beyond. I will outline all of my 
processes to success and share them with you once I've got them sorted 
out.

As far as performance, I'm rather impressed for a 250 mhz 603. I had no 
SCSI troubles at all, able to install directly from the CD. I also have 
an extra internal SCSI drive and an external zip, both seen & used with 
no issues. The only drawback is no sound, but, I think I can live 
without that.

Thanks again for all the work you've put into your site. Each of the 
pages on my site will have a link back to you as an homage. You've 
finally given me the Apache server I always wanted.

Until later,

Jim
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Tom,

As you requested, my OSX on a 6500 steps...

Hardware Specs:
	Power Mac 6500 / 250
	128 mb RAM
	512k L2 cache
	Internal 13 gb ATA drive - Model: Quantum Fireball LCT10 13.6A
	SCSI CD ROM - Model: Matshita CR-8024 (stock?)
	Internal 2 gb SCSI drive - Model: Quantum Fireball ST2.1
	External SCSI Zip 100
	Asante FriendlyNet 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card - Model: Unknown
	Apple GV Internal Modem (stock?)
	Apple Video Digitizing Hardware
	Sonnet Crecendo 300 G3 Upgrade (removed for now - will try installing 
& bench marking later)

Software Specs:
	Mac OS 9.0 Install Disc
	Mac OS 9.1 Updater
	Mac OS 10.1 Install Disc
	XPostFacto 2.2.5
	AsanteFAST 590v2.2.1 Ethernet Driver
	Apple Security Update 07-18-02 for v10.1 - downloaded direct from Apple
	Apple OS X 10.1.5 Combo Updater - downloaded direct from Apple

Installed ATA drive & formatted 2 partitions at 6.37 gb each. Installed 
OS 9 on 2nd partition. Tried to run XPostFacto, but got an AppleGuide 
or CarbonLib (forget which) error. Updated to OS 9.1 & tried again. 
Worked fine.

Inserted OS X 10.1 Install CD into internal SCSI CD drive, launched 
XPostFacto. Set autoboot off, input - keyboard, output - built in 
video. Set Install source as CD drive, destination first partition. 
Clicked install. XPF copied over necessary items from the CD & machine 
rebooted.

Got the open firmware prompt & entered "boot" to begin the process. Got 
the OSX rom start up screen (the "apple") for a few seconds, then the 
system went into verbose mode. Got several errors about the patched 
files not loading & being compatible. Then several source files were 
copied from the CD. Once finished the installer launched. I chose to do 
a custom install, keeping out the extra language resources (since I 
don't speak any of them), and continued the install. After about 20 
minutes (yes, really, only 20 minutes...), all files were installed & 
the machine auto rebooted.

Once the initial account setup & config was done, I installed the 
Asante ethernet driver (I was pleasantly surprised that it worked). 
Rebooted & set up the new network connection. Updated with the initial 
security file that I'd downloaded from Apple (Apple Security Update 
07-18-02 for v10.1 - very important!), rebooted, then ran the 10.1.5 
Combo Update. All went smoothly.

Once running again, rebooted into OS 9, launched XPF & turned autoboot 
back on. Rebooted and the machine went into OS X on it's own without a 
hitch. Ran software update & got all the latest goodies from Apple.

Of course, the above is all after I had installed and wiped the OS X 
partition 3 times from previous tries. It took a little to get the 
process down, but once I did, it was pretty straight forward & easy. 
It's going to make a decent web server. Already have PHP/MySQL 
operational.

Let me know if you have any further questions. You can use any part of 
this message if you like.

Regards,

Jim