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Wiped 9.2 off the wallstreet which is a 292mhz G3 laptop with 192mb ram and an 8gig hd. Installed OSX 10.2 and it runs reasonably well but it needs to be tweaked.

First is to turn off all effects. Then download Shadowkiller to remove the shadow effects from the gui. Next is to remove transparancy using Duality. Finally i need to fix the X server to set the ATI Rage LT into accelerated mode. Then we see how fast it runs.

I picked up an SE/30 with an ethernet pds card at Value Pillage for $4.99 in perfect shape with no burn in, a 40mb hd and 8 mb ram. Installed 7.01 on the machine and it ran fine. Went to install the localtalk bridge software but it requires 7.5 so had to hook up a CD-ROM and do a minimal install. Added ram doubler to 'increase' the ram. Running quite snappy now. Hooked up the SE and the classic to localtalk to test and those system 6 machines could see the ethernet macs.

Version 4.0 is based on Fedora Core. Downloaded the 4 iso's and burned to cd. However it does not support old world machines with the new open firmware. Oldest machine it supports directly is Blue & White. The target machine is the beige G3 266 w 768mb ram. The workaround is to install a minimal macos partition and use the bootX utility to boot to linuz. I installed a 2gig scsi drive on an adaptec 2930 to use as the mac partition and put 8.6 on it. The linux target drive is the 8gig IDE hd (hda0)