greetings this is really a story of my roadtrip to macworld NY and contains some upgrading infos perhaps it is a bit long but some of the details my be helpful as other consider upgrades.
I started in Texas with a used 2400 c 180 ,48mb ram and 3gb hd, a TiBook 400, a Power mac 7600 and a iMac 233 rev b all jammed in the Astro Van with my friend and I. so we had more computers than people! Only the two powerbooks and the two people returned to Texas :-0 Desktops found new NY homes. At Macworld NY 2002 I attempted to install the drivers for the farallon Skyline card and to access the airport network in the Macworld Internet Cafe .. I could not even See any airport networks. I then heard many Powerbooks before TiBook had difficulty also ??? any one know about THAT? Despite my failure it was fun to attempt and a few folks gathered to watch over my shoulder. I was later able to get the card to see other Airport networks (Apple Base Station and Software base Station File sharing off Tibook.) So that was a success with Airport. Next I renewed my contacts with Jake Luck from this list and arranged to do some hardware upgrades inside the 2400. I have some PC and Mac tech building skills but was grateful that Jake offered to help since he had been inside the 2400 several times before. AND YES it is very tight and confusing inside. After Jake removed many scresws and cables. We removed the 3 GB hard drive ... installed it into a Powerboy USB/Firwire enclosure, and put the 10 gb Toshiba HD from my Tibook 400 into the 2400 Powerbook. The drives fit nicely into their new locations. WE DID use a few rubber spacers there were in the powerbook 2400 when we installed the Toshiba drive.- apparently these drive screw spacers are not always present. We also upgraded the Ram to 80 MB with a 64 mb OMNI inc chip off ebay for $39. Despite the troubles some folks have it showed up as 80mb total at first and still has... I think I got one AFTER the quality error that they fixed. now I had a blank HD with no OS as neither JAKE nor I had a CD ROM - Oopps I was able to boot with Jake's Disk tools floppy and verify that the 2400 worked and that the HD and RAM where seen by the system. Thanks again Jake! I next used a CD-Rom I had traveled to NY with (but not carried to Jake's ) and installed os 8.6 temporarily and just tested things out. Then I set up a trip to friend's "Lake House" and got some real work done. I booted the 2400 off Cd and partitioned the internal 10 gb Hd into three partions one with a stock 8.6 (for the future OSX perhaps) I installed the Skyline card and drivers on the 2400 8.6 install. i hooked the Powerboy firewire enclosure (old 2400 HD) up the the Tibook and it mounts to desktop.. With Airport base station in Ad hoc (infrastructure mode) I used file sharing to transfer the previously tweaked 8.6 install from the Firewire Hd into a second partiton on the 2400. back in Manhattan I was able to find a panasonic 24 x portable CDrom with no battery case for $100 used . and it works most of the time :-) So Now I have a 2400 180 with 80mb ram and a 10 gb 4200rpm toshiba HD. I have Wireless networking, and ethernet, an extraneous modem I have never setup ;-) and two batteries and a Cd rom. I have found that 8.6 works best for me on the 2400. I have two Versions installed , one is pretty stock for troubleshooting and one is tweaked . Then I have 6 gb left over for CD imagesand mp3s (i use Audion Player) so I NEVER need to carry around the Cdrom. All I am waiting for is the G3 upgrade to the 2400 and my Tibook can stay at home as a desktop unit. Hope some of this Process is of use to those considering uprgades.... it was a lot of leg work... but NOW 2400 comet Rocks and goes everywhere with me. -- ==== Bon V. Davis II = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========= ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | 10/100 Ethernet for your 2400 is finally here! MPC-100 | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/mpc100.html> RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at <http://roadtools.com> Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
