December 2004

The default install for Mac OS X 10.3 uses Discs 1 and 2 (including Additional apps, Printer drivers, Asian Fonts, and Language Translation) Disc 3 contains packages for X11 or additional language fonts. If you do not have Disc 2 or 3 CD available, yo can...

ANSWER: Journaling (or file system journaling)...

- you must select a destionation partition for Mac OS X that is completely within the first 8GB of the disk or the Mac OS installer will not allow the installation to continue. See KB article #106235 Mac OS X: Disk Appears Dimmed (or Grayed Out)...

1. Erase and Install PROS: provides a clean installation, allows yout o reset partitions, can install on any partition; CONS: all data on selected partition will be erased 2. Update PROS: installer will update Mac OS X...

1. Insert the Mac OS X Install Disc 1 and launch (double-click on) the install icon 2. Start the computer up with the Install Disc 1 in the drive and hold down the C key...

Older firmware updates do not run in Mac OS X, they only run in Mac OS 9. If the firmware you need to upgrade to is only available as a Mac OS 9 firmware upgrade, it is necessary to either install Mac OS 9 on the...

The classic Mac OS 9 envirnoment can only start from a volume formatted with Mac OS Extended. Once running, the classic environment can read from and write to other kinds of volume formats...

While all Mac OS computers that run Mac OS X can run Mac OS 9 in Classic mode, not all Macs can start up from Mac OS 9. See KB article #86209...

- beige Power Mac G3s (includes the G3 Minitowers, G3 desktop, etc) - PowerBook G3 computer without a built-in USB the latest OS which can be installed on these computers is 10.2. ...