booting questions

[cmf0046]

I just got my Powerbook G3 wallstreet in the mail yesterday. It works fine 
except for a few things. Apparently it is booting from the OS 9 cd and not the 
hard drive. I cant eject the disk because it says the system is running 
straight off the CD. IS there any way I can tell it to boot from the HD 
instead of the disk on startup. OS 9 is installed on the HD but it just wont 
boot from it. Also, I dont know if its a bad CDROM drive but it seems to be 
reading the CD thats in there but it wont open when I push the button. Any 
help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Coleman Ford

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Re: wallstreet upgrades

[cmf0046]

Thanks for the help. I realized that I would probably have to get an external 
CDRW but I just didnt want to have to lug it around every where I went. Thanks 
for the help and advice. I appreciate it.

Coleman

Quoting Ben Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> There was a CD-RW drive manufactured for the Wallstreet, but it's 
> impossible to find these days. Unlike the Lombard and Pismo, you can't 
> just replace the drive in the expansion bay module with a standard 
> low-profile optical drive. At this stage, your only option is to get an 
> external device.
> 
> OS X runs quite well on the 292 and 300MHz Wallstreets, and acceptably 
> on the 266MHz. Anything slower and you'll be frustrated. Jaguar is the 
> last OS officially supported by Apple, but 10.3 can be installed with 
> the aid of XPostFacto. 384MB RAM is really the minimum for OS X. Less 
> than that and things like launching applications and switching between 
> open applications become unacceptably slow. Some people have had 
> problems using 512MB RAM under 10.3, but I've never run into it on 
> either of my PowerBooks. For maximum performance, set your monitor to 
> thousands of colours mode. To speed QT movie playback, there's a 
> modification you can make to the video drivers, but I recommend staying 
> away from that unless it's really necessary for you.
> 
> A 10GB hard disk is enough to install a stripped-down version of 
> Panther and still have enough room left over for a decent set of 
> programs and documents. Panther will take up about 1-1.5GB over the top 
> of your existing OS 9 installation (probably about 500MB of system and 
> applications).
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
> On 23 Oct 2004, at 01:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I recently purchased a Powerbook G3 wallstreet. I was wondering about 
> > two
> > possible upgrades. First, what are my options for upgrading to a CDRW. 
> > Is there
> > an internal drive that was made for the wallstreet, OEM or thirdparty? 
> > I know I
> > could probably buy a firewire upgrade card and buy an external drive 
> > but I
> > would like to avoid that if I could. Also, what are my options for 
> > running OSX
> > on my wallstreet. The system has 384 MB Ram and a 10 GB HD. Any info 
> > would be
> > greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > Coleman Ford
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wallstreet upgrades

[cmf0046]

I recently purchased a Powerbook G3 wallstreet. I was wondering about two 
possible upgrades. First, what are my options for upgrading to a CDRW. Is there 
an internal drive that was made for the wallstreet, OEM or thirdparty? I know I 
could probably buy a firewire upgrade card and buy an external drive but I 
would like to avoid that if I could. Also, what are my options for running OSX 
on my wallstreet. The system has 384 MB Ram and a 10 GB HD. Any info would be 
greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Coleman Ford

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