iMac revision c & OSX

How much RAM have you got? That'll be the real deciding factor for OS X. Any thing under 128MB and you shouldn't even bother. Anything over 128MB and it should be fine.

iMac 266 profile on LEM shows you have a chance of putting 384-512MB in it. I've got a slotload 350 that runs X fine on 256MB, and would do ok on 128.

For WiFI you can use USB to get 802.11b speeds, for higher speeds you'll need an ethernet to WiFi bridge. That will let you use 100Base-T to the bridge and if it supports 802.11g you'll get 54Mbps from there.

It'll probably work, as I think trayloaders have fans, right? Anyway, you'll still need to limit the boot partition to the first 8GB on the drive, then partition the rest as desired.

BTW, if you go with somethinglike Ubuntu, your partition can be any size you like, as the boot partition to load Ubuntu goes before it, and is 1MB in size. I think this will let you install both Ubuntu and OS X and have OS X on a partition bigger than 8GB. Just rememebr to put the Ubuntu partitions on the drive before X.

i have a grape 333 running tiger and 9.22.. os 9.2.2 and tiger after all the updates takes up almost the entire 7 gigs i partitioned to boot off of my wd 80 gig drive. it runs respectibly well. i have 256mb installed (actually they are 2 [256mb] sticks, but we all know how damn picky these things are, and it only sees half of each stick) PC100 SODIMM is what it should be for ram. and yes, tray loaders do have fans (and CD drives that tend to fail very easily) if you can get tiger on it, itll run even better than 10.3, but its a process.. i removed the DVD drive from my very attractive mini and attached it to the imac by way of the connector that is already attached to the CD drive in the tray loader. (since then i obtained tiger on 4 CD's instead of 1 dvd)PM me about them if needed.

just for the humor of it, that machine (7200rpm 8mb cache hard drive, 333mhz g3, 256mb ram) gets a 10 in xbench... on a good run.

oh yeah, make sure youve done all the firmware updates first before you put X on it. put your classic (system 9) on the drive before X, then you have to update it to at least 9.2 before both systems can see each other to select startup volumes.

oh yeah, and if your going for tiger youve got to use xpostfacto to bypass the firewire check to allow installation. i think that covers everything i went through. (see if you can get a rev. D 333 card though... 266 is kind of painful)

iMac 266 profile on LEM shows you have a chance of putting 384-512MB in it. I've got a slotload 350 that runs X fine on 256MB, and would do ok on 128.

The trick regarding 256MB SO-DIMMs in tray-loading Macs is they have to be the older low-density ones. They're easily identifiable by counting the chips. (they'll have 8 on each side, total of 16.)

In my opinion the big "yuck" in running OS X on these machines, (other then their general flakiness and mediocrity) is the 8GB partition limit. I finally got around to getting all UNIX on my trayloader's arse and breaking the installation up into multiple partitions. It's a shame the OS X installer doesn't let you do that.

"But that'd be too haaaaard!"

--Peace

yes, unless it is the processor card that is dead of course