Mac OS X PB at Macs Only!

Dana Baggett is happily trying out Mac OS X PB on his iMac 350 SL. He installed it without a hitch on his only hard drive alongside Mac OS 9.0.4 after backing up everything, of course. The only problem he has encountered is not being able to print to his Epson inkjet. Says Dana, "[I]t's quite easy to go from one to the other system. Using the System Disk control panel - which the Mac OS X manual says is in the "Welcome to the Mac OS X" folder but which is not evident on my machine; I found it in the Mac OS 9 folder - one selects the Mac OS X system folder for the next reboot and...voila."

We are not having as much luck with our Power Mac G4 Sawtooth and spent much of last evening trying to get Mac OS X PB to install on a 40 GB hard drive attached to a Sonnet Tempo ATA66 card instead of the primary drive. First, it took an exceptionally long time to get even a partially up to date Mac OS 9.0.4 onto the drive's partition set up for Mac OS X PB. It seems that everybody is doing that since Apple's servers, either using the Software Update control panel or direct downloading, are bogged down. We eventually gave up trying to get the many updates. Then our G4 would not start up while pressing the "c" key during a restart with Mac OS X PB in the DVD drive. The G4 similarly hung during the restart after clicking on the Mac OS X PB installer. The installation failure is probably due to one or more of these issues: a Voodoo5 video card driving the main monitor, a second video card (ATI Rage Pro) driving a second monitor, the target hard drive is not the main hard drive or the target hard drive is attached to a Tempo controller PCI card. The Mac OS X PB documentation states that the installer may not work with 2 monitors and 2 video cards but we're reserving this riddle for the weekend and will report on it then.