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KP when installing OS X Public Beta

Posted by: protocol7 on 2010-08-12 07:05:11 So I decided to try again to install this on my iMac. For some reason it always KP's shortly after booting off the CD. I've reset PRAM and set the date back to April 2001. I just want to poke around and see what it's like. My iMac was built after the beta would have expired so is it possible that it just won't run on this model?

Posted by: Mac128 on 2010-08-12 08:25:49 Yes absolutely possible. Ever notice that Macs have minimum system requirements? The Public Beta would have only been designed to support a select number of existing Macs at the time it was released only. Subsequent Macs might have supported it, but only if they also support OS 9.2 and no other version of OS X had yet been released. If your iMac was built after OS X 1.0 was released then no, the Public Beta absolutely won't work.

Posted by: protocol7 on 2010-08-12 08:33:28 I guess that must be it. I'll have to settle for installing 10.0 instead.

Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-08-13 17:38:26 Yeah, you say in your sig that you have a Summer 2001 iMac....thats too new - I wouldn't go for any newer than the first slot load iMacs (the fruit flavoured ones), or the Summer 2000 models, since they either pre-date the beta, or were around at the same time as the beta, respectively.

Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2010-08-13 18:57:45 In addition, OS X PB is infamously picky about RAM. If you have third-party RAM, try taking it out. (Although in your case, it is almost 100% guaranteed that the system is too new. I mean, why would Apple include drivers in the PB for a system that wouldn't be out until the final release?)

Posted by: protocol7 on 2010-08-13 19:33:36 Third party RAM could be a possibility as it gives up very quick. Not long after the Happy Mac there's no more disc activity from the cdrom and then after a minute or so it panics. I might just give it another shot with the extra 512MB module out but chances are the iMac is just too new. I went ahead and installed 10.0 anyway and damn it's scary how basic it was (I started my OS X days with 10.2.1). Even the beta had a Music Player but in 10.0 putting in an audio CD gets you a Finder window of the aiff files. DMGs won't mount in Disk Copy. System Profiler looks just like the classic one in an Aqua skin. Talk about humble beginnings 🙂

Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-08-13 20:06:44 Yeah, you can see why most people stuck with OS 9 back then, in addition to the fact that most apps didn't make it over until 10.1 or even 10.2. For what its worth, the reason Mac OS X 10.0 never had the Music Player is that it should have iTunes 1 instead.

Posted by: protocol7 on 2010-08-25 14:19:47 I guess it was the too-new problem. It's up and running just fine on my newly-resurrected Gigabit Ethernet.

Posted by: Paralel on 2010-08-26 07:04:28 I can't imagine what Apple was thinking concerning that "striped" menu bar idea. It's just plain awful.

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