March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
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OS X for This Old Mac
Give your legacy Mac hardware a nudge into OS X with the XPostFacto hack.
Wait, don’t throw out that old Power Mac or Umax clone; it may just be up for a little Mac OS X sprucing. Some of those old Macs will actually run Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) — with a little help from an unassuming-looking control panel.
I recently gave an old 7500 a G3 upgrade card from Sonnet (http://www.sonnettech.com/), a quad-port FireWire card, and a dual-port USB card (only $37, combined). Mac OS 9 ran rather snappily and the machine served quite nicely as a USB print server. Then I stumbled across a little something called XPostFacto (http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/), which is open source and free.
XPostFacto is a little hack that brings Mac OS X, OS X Server, and Darwin to older, unsupported, and forgotten Mac models — those draped in the unfashionable beige of times past.
Before you think of giving XPostFacto a whirl, be sure to consult the compatibility chart at:
| http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto.html#preparing |
Also, make sure your machine has been recently backed up. You’re dealing with an unsupported hack here.
You can find XPostFacto site’s comprehesive documentation at:
| http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto.html |
The procedure in a nutshell is:
Boot into Mac OS 9.
Insert your standard-issue Mac OS X installation CD.
Run the XPostFacto application (icon shown in Figure 2-4).
Point ...
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