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Actually, no it didnt.. lol. I created a new HD image using fsutil (as i've described earlier), and looked at it in a text editor. Luckly the editor I used showed "null characters", and turns out thats all the image is ;-). So its a nice 5-7 line loop, and viola, image file created :-).

In other news, besides me feelign sick, my mother just went to the hospital with heart attack symptoms :unsure:

I think I'm going to work a little harder now, just so I can stay up and wait for some answers. Who knows, there might be a build in a few hours :-).

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Actually, no it didnt.. lol. I created a new HD image using fsutil (as i've described earlier), and looked at it in a text editor. Luckly the editor I used showed "null characters", and turns out thats all the image is ;-). So its a nice 5-7 line loop, and viola, image file created :-).

In other news, besides me feelign sick, my mother just went to the hospital with heart attack symptoms :unsure:

I think I'm going to work a little harder now, just so I can stay up and wait for some answers. Who knows, there might be a build in a few hours :-).

Hope your Mum is alright man

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So I got my hands on a copy of panther and im trying to install it. It failed as an upgrade so I loaded the installer and use the disk utility to wipe the drive image and its installing. My question is is this, I know that panther seems to take a bit of time to install on x86 systems, but out of the all the people that were able to get it in, how many of you saw time frame's like 4 hours?? and did it actualy need that full 4 hours?? thanks in advance.

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So I got my hands on a copy of panther and im trying to install it. It failed as an upgrade so I loaded the installer and use the disk utility to wipe the drive image and its installing. My question is is this, I know that panther seems to take a bit of time to install on x86 systems, but out of the all the people that were able to get it in, how many of you saw time frame's like 4 hours?? and did it actualy need that full 4 hours?? thanks in advance.

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took me about 4hrs both times i've installed.

Tekmaven: hope everything's alright dude (Y) cant wait to try out your release

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Ryan Hoffman

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Thankfully my mother is alright. She didn't suffer a heart attack: she had some misbeats that screwed many things up. She is now recovering, and is exepcted to even go to work this week :-0.

I ran into a little snag creating images... I was testing out using small sizes (1kb, 10kb, etc), and turns out when I tried making a 1gb image it was to much for a 32-bit Integer :-P. Took me like 10 minutes, but I just figured it all out (mega nested for loops :-).. four nested for loops!). Tomorrow you guys will get a screenie of the first (Work-in-progress) wizard ;-). Oh yeah, and you'll get Beta 1 ;-).

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Emon

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Thankfully my mother is alright. She didn't suffer a heart attack: she had some misbeats that screwed many things up. She is now recovering, and is exepcted to even go to work this week :-0.

I ran into a little snag creating images... I was testing out using small sizes (1kb, 10kb, etc), and turns out when I tried making a 1gb image it was to much for a 32-bit Integer :-P. Took me like 10 minutes, but I just figured it all out (mega nested for loops :-).. four nested for loops!). Tomorrow you guys will get a screenie of the first (Work-in-progress) wizard ;-). Oh yeah, and you'll get Beta 1 ;-).

it takes 10 mins to make an 1 gig empty image ?? why so ? that python script takes like a sec ..

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McKrout

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what upgrade?

Loaded the panther CD up after installing 10.1. i would have installed 10.3 right away, but i didnt have it until today. so when it gave me the choice to upgrade instead of stead of doing a whole install, i jumped at the chance. i read about the 4 and 5 hour install times and i just didnt want to deal with that. well the upgrade failed at the end. i came back from my evening coffee run and see "some errors occured during the install" or whatever it said. so now im doing a full install of 10.3 and waiting eagerly for it to install correctly.

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Loaded the panther CD up after installing 10.1. i would have installed 10.3 right away, but i didnt have it until today. so when it gave me the choice to upgrade instead of stead of doing a whole install, i jumped at the chance. i read about the 4 and 5 hour install times and i just didnt want to deal with that. well the upgrade failed at the end. i came back from my evening coffee run and see "some errors occured during the install" or whatever it said. so now im doing a full install of 10.3 and waiting eagerly for it to install correctly.

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oh

hey should i go online with panther if i dont have a legit copy? it says that it's going to send out my registation info once i connect, and i dont want to get screwed or something

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McKrout

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hey should i go online with panther if i dont have a legit copy? it says that it's going to send out my registation info once i connect, and i dont want to get screwed or something

browse to the home folder, the reg info should be listed there, you can delete it. i did, though i never got online wtih 10.1 sadly.

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the upgrade failed at the end. i came back from my evening coffee run and see "some errors occured during the install" or whatever it said. so now im doing a full install of 10.3 and waiting eagerly for it to install correctly.

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I have experienced a similar problem (identical problem), however with a clean installation of 10.3. It always fails to install (cleanly after performing a format/erase, using Mac OS X extended (Journaled)). I wonder what this problem is, because I have tried about six times now to install 10.3 - all resulting in "There were errors during installation. Please try installing again" (or something similar, see my post a few pages back). :o

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I have experienced a similar problem (identical problem), however with a clean installation of 10.3. It always fails to install (cleanly after performing a format/erase, using Mac OS X extended (Journaled)). I wonder what this problem is, because I have tried about six times now to install 10.3 - all resulting in "There were errors during installation. Please try installing again" (or something similar, see my post a few pages back). :o

Well the good news is that after a clean install i now get the message that states "your software was installed successfully." this made me extatic, but when i load ppc up, i just an exception error in the dos window and the os doesnt boot. new challange to deal with i guess.

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Fullscreen toggle (F12)

Mousegrab (SHIFT+ F9)

Change redraw timings on the fly (F10 -1msec; F11 +1msec)

Could you PLEASE select other function keys for this?

F9-F11 are by default used in Panther for Expose, and on iBooks some people (including me) use F12 as Eject.

I would suggest F5-F8, which I have never seen used in Mac OS (7.1-10.3).

Another topic: for those who are experimenting with 10.1 and networking. There is a driver for the RTL8139 for use with 10.1 on realtek's website. I used this driver to get 10.1 to work with a second NIC installed in a PowerMac 7600 (no, that is not a configuration supported by Apple...). Talking about slow configurations...

So, even if 10.1 does not support the 8139 out of the box, it might be possible to get networking to work. Just keep in mind that 10.1 is SLOWWWWW compared to 10.3.

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Then change your Expose keys :p

Also, could someone clarify how to share files between Mac and Windows? I thought I had it setup right...but it still doesn't work. Here's what I did:

OSX

Set password on admin account (bradleyc)

Change computer name to PearSMB, reboot

Drop an alias to another folder into Public

Windows:

Start, Run, \\PearSMB.inet (I run a freesco box: the domain is 'inet')

Receive password prompt, enter "bradleyc/*******" (user/pass)

Window for OSX opens, revealing one folder: "BradleyC"

Double-click, nothing happens for 60 seconds; BONG! computer is not responding, moron!!

So now what do I do?

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