Wallstreet and Tiger (a working setup)

Question

For some reason my first lengthy post about the upgrade of my Wallstreet was removed so I will post it in (brief) parts since I am not sure where my mistake was supposed to be...
Many thanks to those ones among you who (unconsciously) provided me with help for such update. "jpl" and "Tinkerman" are the only names I can mention by heart but they are not alone.
Start configuration: PowerBook G3 Series Wallstreet Revision II, 233MHz, 512kB cache, 2GB, 192MB
Upgraded disk to 80GB and CPU to G4 (no brand names in case those were the culprit).
Partitioned the disk in three: 7.45GB for Mac OS X, 5GB for OS 9.2.2 and the rest for documents.
Initially it was running with Jaguar in the first partition, then I decided to move forward to Tiger.
Removed the disk from the Wallstreet and inserted in a FireWire enclosure.
Connected to another more recent PowerBook with Tiger, inserted the Tiger DVD and installed the system on the 7.45GB partition.
Remounted in the Wallstreet and booted in OS 9.2.2 (default choice when all power is removed).
Installed XPostfacto 4 and chosen the following option: everything unselected apart from "auto-boot?" and "Use old NDRVs".
Restarted... in Tiger!
MANY more options are possible and were tested but these appear to be (so far) perfectly working.
If this goes through, I will tell you about the rest and the details.
Regards,
Giulio

Answer 1

Sorry for the late reply. Great, I am glad that this time the message went through; I am still wondering why the first one was removed.
More info about my bulky update. Actually the complete list of the updates should be the following: 500MHz G4 CPU with 1MB cache, AC/sound card (on its way; I was tired of keeping soldering), left hinge, PRAM battery, DVD-ROM (in search for a PCMCIA decoder card), RAM up to 512MB, new battery, PCMCIA Wi-Fi card at 54Mbps, PCMCIA USB 2.0 card.
Definitely not a bad final setup for a 10 years old machine. Money-wise I suppose I went close as I would have got a Pismo in very good conditions (but without at least a new battery and a G4 CPU).
Among the possible factors affecting the installation of Tiger on Wallstreet, I read that somebody included the type and amount of RAM so I kept 192MB throughout the whole installation process, in case this may help.
The system appears surprisingly snappy (the G4 as well as the RAM playing a good role here, I suppose) and it has become, or better returned to be, a working machine.
And now the "issues" that show up with the original CPU as well as with the G4 one:
- the Debug menu in Safari was missing: after some day of surprise and confusion, I found this Terminal command that calls it back on duty: "defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu -bool YES"
- System Profiler can not distinguish the two RAM pieces and just sees the total amount: any explanation or solution?
- the Brightness slider in the System Preferences > Displays is missing: of course it can be solved through third party applications still... anybody knows how to make it appear?
- ADB mouse: if not connected from boot or if the PowerBook went on sleep, it becomes so slow to be unusable (apparently, according to Apple, it is normal for ADB devices but until Jaguar I always plugged it and unplugged it without any problem); anyway now an optical USB mouse is much better
- the "About this Mac" window does not show the serial number when clicking on the OS X version: any explanation or solution?
- coconutIdentityCard and coconutBattery give meaningless values: any explanation or solution?
- GoogleEarth (4.2.0205.5730) was not working and the Earth appeared as a white globe; then I saw that, enabling "Preferences > 3d View > Graphics mode > Use safe mode", it works although it is not blazing fast, of course
- Login window keyboard layout: this is somehow annoying since, whenever the login password is required (i.e. not the authentication window for, say, software install), the keyboard layout is not the system one (unless in a user change when the previous user had the Italian keyboard, in my case) but supposedly US International or alike thus password entering may become a challenge according to the characters involved; again: any explanation or solution?
- battery remaining time is/was missing (apparently this is also an issue with Pismo and Tiger): the percentage of charge is calculated but the time estimate remains always on "calculating..."; I discovered that there is a trick of substituting the "/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/PowerManagement.bundle" with a Panther or Jaguar version, repair permissions and reboot, still I am experiencing not reproducible misbehaviors with the battery management (including not recognizing or not charging the battery...) and I hope, but I am not sure, that the yet-to-arrive AC/sound card may solve them unless I got a defective battery: any better idea on how kicking it to work properly?
- I tried also Gimp and NeoOffice: roughly 30 seconds and one minute respectively to start but rather usable afterward
- some heavy graphic functions of the system are simplified, such as the "rotating cube" for the user change becoming a blue screen or simply the lack of the "stone in the water" effect in Dashboard; at the same time, Exposé is perfectly working as well as window effects
- Wi-Fi and USB 2.0 work perfectly
Well, that should be all. I would really appreciate additional comments... as well as explanations or solutions for the issues.
Regards,
Giulio