mlitwin writes, <I am very new to Apple but have you tried the gimp drivers for printers? perhaps this group can tell you if one of them would work. I wanted my G3 and G4 to use the same printer,an Epson stylus Color 880. There was no problem with the G4 but the only driver that worked on the G3,using 10.3.9,was a Gimp driver. I think you are asking about use of a printer?>
1. Welcome to our List, and to the (almost) always wonderful world of Mac. :-) 2. Thanks, but no, it's not actually a printer problem I'm having. I mentioned a printer driver issue (which doesn't actually affect my ability to print: my LaserWriter 4/600 PS works very well in OS X) in my description of the problem (an OS 9-on-G4 issue) because I had originally thought an error message I was getting with regards to a driver for the printer I used to use might have been relevant to the cause of my problem, and thought the gurus on the List would find it easier to help me if I gave them complete information/history of what was going on. It's not enough to say "My G4 won't boot or run OS 9" because there are frequently a lot of reasons that can cause trouble. Anyhoo, hmmmm, while I'm here, time for a status report. Earlier today, dc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) suggested I nuke and pave my OS 9 HD. I'd quote his/her exact suggestion and reasoning (most of which made excellent sense), except it's on the Powerbook 5300 and I'm now back up on the G4 in Tiger, which is good, but back at Square One (Classic Mode is good in OS X but no bootable OS 9). So, here's the update: 1. Yup, my backups were good to go (with one minor update), so yes, I followed the Disk Utility "write zeroes" reformat that HD advice precisely. However, since I don't like multi-partitioning my HDs unless it's absolutely necessary (like on my iBook which only has one HD, so I gave that a small OS 9 boot partition), plus, since for two years I was booting and running 9 on this machine from that HD as single partition, I wanted to be able to do it again -- so I didn't follow the part of the suggestion to partition the HD -- I just reformatted it. Yes, I made sure the box was checked for installing OS 9 drivers. 2. On the nice clean HD, I installed OS 9 using the Mac OS 9.2.2 install CD from the pack of CDs I got with my Quicksilver (which would contain G4 drivers, not G3 like from my old Beige and even older other OS 9 install CDs I have). It went mostly OK, i.e., I got a couple of unexpected prompts about it not being able to install Airport stuff, chose the "skip" option on that because I don't have Airport for my G4 anyway (and if I ever get it, I'll be using it solely on OS X). Maybe I got those prompts during the supposed clean install I thought I did shortly after getting my G4, but I don't remember, so they kind of surprised me. But, other than that, it installed fine. 3. Used the Classic Preferences from Tiger to set this up to run Classic. Yes, I did this "way back when" (i.e., originally, shortly after getting my G4 as mentioned above), and now I think I know what dc meant when he/she said OS X would make alterations which would bless this system folder -- it told me it had to make an Update, and I clicked to let it. That, I presume, was the "blessing." Right? Well, OK, that's what I did. Classic started up fine. However, when I did this "way back when," my G4's Option-Restart feature allowed me to choose my OS 9 HD to boot with, and if I chose that drive, it would boot and run in 9 (whining about the old printer driver notwithstanding -- it would whine saying it didn't have the driver, but when I clicked OK, it would proceed to run nicely in 9, until recently when it started freezing up) -- but now when I Option-Restart, it only shows me my OS X HD. Doesn't matter if I do the Option-Restart by holding the Option key down while choosing Restart from the Apple menu or if I do it with the G4's power button. Sooooo...like I said, I'm back to Square One: I can't make my Quicksilver boot and run in 9. Any more suggestions, anyone? :::::sigh::::: ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---