Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Thinking I must have damaged something, I took the new drive out and replaced the old. It started up and I was able to boot the 10.2 disk. Put the new drive in an enclosure, hooked it up to my G4 and formatted and partioned it. Back into the Wallstreet and the same problem. I have installed a number of drives over the years, but this has me stumped. Its got to be something simple I'm overlooking - a real forehead smacker. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here? Rereading this post led me to understand that you have a clean HD without any OS on it. Boot from a OS 9 CD. Partition the HD in two sections, the first partition must be less than 8 GB. Install OS 9 on the second partition. I don't know if you can do this from your Zip drive, unless you have the disk utility on it. After installing the OS, restart the machine using OS 9 then download XPF and install OS X.3 using XPF on the first partition. I would not install X.2 on the Wall Street as it causes all sorts of flaky monitor behaviours, like a 'melting' effect from which you cannot recover without a restart, no wake from sleep, desktop pictures that are partially scrambled cured by moving an open window around (mine did this on the lower portion of the monitor only). The first two are the real 'turn- offs,' though. I have a 12 WS I upgraded to a 300 MHz processor and 83 MHz bus as a result of the upgrade and added a larger HD as you are doing. X. 3 has run with a hitch and smoothly even with only 160 MB of RAM. I have also worked on a WS II with a 14.1 screen, doing much the same. I had the same issues with X.2 on it as well, but no problems with X.3. If you should go to X.3 do follow XPF's directions for installation carefully as there is a video issue with a WS installation of X.3. HTH J Sanderson -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. Rereading this post led me to understand that you have a clean HD without any OS on it. Boot from a OS 9 CD. Err; that is where he is falling down; on booting from a CD. A) Try another known-good bootable CD. B) Swap CD drives with another? C) Boot from a SCSI CD maybe? D) Can you do installs over the SCSI? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
On 23/06/05 13:03, Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have hit the solution yet. I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the 8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did the same thing. I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this was related only to sleep issues and newer drives did not have the problem. Could be wrong. I tried to boot with a os 9 disk, my diskwarrior disk and even os 8 to no avail. It seems to be a problem with booting from the cd. I can do it with the old drive, but not the new. Should it be possible to boot without a hd in the computer - with just a start up disk? Or does the computer have to see a hd even if there is no OS on it? Maybe there is something wrong with the new drive. I did follow this thread and I think that the CD drive is bad for some reason. You shouldn't have all those problems to boot from a startup CD specially that you tried many of them. Of course, it's had to be sure until you replace the CD drive. You don't have to have a hard disk with a system on it to boot from a startup CD. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA Usual disclaimers apply *** -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Is the new drive an ATA-6 drive? I have read Lombards will not run on a ATA-6, max is a ATA-5. I don't know if this is true on a Wallstreet. Just my .$ 02 Mike --- Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have hit the solution yet. I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the 8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did the same thing. I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this was related only to sleep issues and newer drives did not have the problem. Could be wrong. I tried to boot with a os 9 disk, my diskwarrior disk and even os 8 to no avail. It seems to be a problem with booting from the cd. I can do it with the old drive, but not the new. Should it be possible to boot without a hd in the computer - with just a start up disk? Or does the computer have to see a hd even if there is no OS on it? Maybe there is something wrong with the new drive. __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
On Jun 23, 2005, at 5:29 PM, John Abraham wrote: One thing that I did find out is the Wallstreet is an Old World Mac Computer, This means it is reluctant to boot from the CD drive whilst pressing the C key on start up. Hmm. My wallstreet would boot from a CD whether the C key were pressed or not, if the CD was bootable. The hard (impossible?) thing was to get it NOT to boot from the CD. Anne -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Since it will boot to the Cd with the old drive in the computer I would say the problem is with the formatting of the drive in the G4 machine. I would bet that the OS on that machine is X and that would cause the problem. I would try a machine with OS 9(not classic) first too format the HD and then try it. If you don't have that see what you have available to hook the drive to the computer and then format it that way. Shaack Ben Woodard wrote: Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have hit the solution yet. I did format the hd on my G4 and partitioned with the 8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did the same thing. I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this was related only to sleep issues and newer drives did not have the problem. Could be wrong. I tried to boot with a os 9 disk, my diskwarrior disk and even os 8 to no avail. It seems to be a problem with booting from the cd. I can do it with the old drive, but not the new. Should it be possible to boot without a hd in the computer - with just a start up disk? Or does the computer have to see a hd even if there is no OS on it? Maybe there is something wrong with the new drive. __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Don't forget the drive work in another computer!! Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 23/06/05 13:03, Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have hit the solution yet. I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the 8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did the same thing. I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this was related only to sleep issues and newer drives did not have the problem. Could be wrong. I tried to boot with a os 9 disk, my diskwarrior disk and even os 8 to no avail. It seems to be a problem with booting from the cd. I can do it with the old drive, but not the new. Should it be possible to boot without a hd in the computer - with just a start up disk? Or does the computer have to see a hd even if there is no OS on it? Maybe there is something wrong with the new drive. I did follow this thread and I think that the CD drive is bad for some reason. You shouldn't have all those problems to boot from a startup CD specially that you tried many of them. Of course, it's had to be sure until you replace the CD drive. You don't have to have a hard disk with a system on it to boot from a startup CD. -Laurent. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Since it will boot to the Cd with the old drive in the computer I would say the problem is with the formatting of the drive in the G4 machine. Actually, I thinking other things. The new drive draws too much current; or it hogs the data lines because ??.. Hmm; on a PB; what controls drive selection... i.e. Master/Slave or SCSI ID ? Could the new drive be strapped the same as the CD? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
neat work-around I like it. Yes this should work Shaack John Abraham wrote: Hi There, I install a Seagate 40 Gb HD in my Wallstreet 233 MHz plus 512 Mb of ram and had no problems with installing OS 10,1. I have 4 partitions one which is a LInux partition, now this one did prove a problem but that's another story. The same Wallstreet now has a 300 MHz CPU and running under 10.2.8. One thing that I did find out is the Wallstreet is an Old World Mac Computer, This means it is reluctant to boot from the CD drive whilst pressing the C key on start up. If I remember what I had to do was as follows: 1. With the original HD in, place the OS X install CD in the CD drive. Make sure it mounts on to the desktop. 2. Go into OS 9 extensions and select START UP DISK. When you see the options ie: HD and OSX install disc select the OS X disc and reboot. You should now be running on the OS X install disc. If I remember correctly as it is now running from the CD what you do with the HD will not affect it at the moment. I then shut the computer down with the OS X disc still in the drive. I then changed the HD, rebooted and it still ran from the install CD. After this I partitioned the HD with the OS X install disc, remembering the first partition has to be under 8 Gb as this is where you will install the operating system. When you have installed your operating system just reselect start up disc from the install CD to now access the new OS X system partition and reboot. You should now be at the administration screen of your new system. Just set the admin name and password and to the desktop you should go. I hope those works for you as it has been a couple of years since I did it and mine has worked OK since. Good Luck John Abraham UK Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:03:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with Wallstreet HD install Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have hit the solution yet. I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the 8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did the same thing. I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this was related only to sleep issues and newer drives did not have the problem. Could be wrong. I tried to boot with a os 9 disk, my diskwarrior disk and even os 8 to no avail. It seems to be a problem with booting from the cd. I can do it with the old drive, but not the new. Should it be possible to boot without a hd in the computer - with just a start up disk? Or does the computer have to see a hd even if there is no OS on it? Maybe there is something wrong with the new drive. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Ben, did you format the new hard drive? On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Ben Woodard wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Thinking I must have damaged something, I took the new drive out and replaced the old. It started up and I was able to boot the 10.2 disk. Put the new drive in an enclosure, hooked it up to my G4 and formatted and partioned it. Back into the Wallstreet and the same problem. I have installed a number of drives over the years, but this has me stumped. Its got to be something simple I'm overlooking - a real forehead smacker. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
At 02:53 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Wasn't there some issue with the magnet that senses if the case is closed, and some HD's tripping it falsely? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
On the WS the OS needs to be located in a partition less than 8GB in size and it must be located in the first 8GB on the drive. Matt On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Ben Woodard wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Thinking I must have damaged something, I took the new drive out and replaced the old. It started up and I was able to boot the 10.2 disk. Put the new drive in an enclosure, hooked it up to my G4 and formatted and partioned it. Back into the Wallstreet and the same problem. I have installed a number of drives over the years, but this has me stumped. Its got to be something simple I'm overlooking - a real forehead smacker. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
At 3:31 PM -0400 6/22/05, David Lesher wrote: At 02:53 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Wasn't there some issue with the magnet that senses if the case is closed, and some HD's tripping it falsely? Yes, that was an issue. I put a 32 Gig IBM Travelstar in mine back in 2000 and had to tape a thin steel strip to the top of the drive to fix the problem. The page showing how to do this disappeared off the Japanese web site that holds it, but I got it through the Way Back Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/20001027113049/http://www01.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ba2/nsxt/faq17.html - web -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
At 3:31 PM -0400 6/22/05, David Lesher wrote: At 02:53 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Wasn't there some issue with the magnet that senses if the case is closed, and some HD's tripping it falsely? There is an issue but it just causes the computer to not always wake up after you open the lid and hit a key. BTW a simple fix for this problem is to open the lid and turn the computer around while tapping a key. Since this always worked on my WS I never bothered trying the magnetic shielding. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
At 5:39 PM -0400 6/22/05, Matt and Sue Halter wrote: On the WS the OS needs to be located in a partition less than 8GB in size and it must be located in the first 8GB on the drive. True but the OP hadn't gotten that far, they were trying to boot from CD. Matt On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Ben Woodard wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Thinking I must have damaged something, I took the new drive out and replaced the old. It started up and I was able to boot the 10.2 disk. Put the new drive in an enclosure, hooked it up to my G4 and formatted and partioned it. Back into the Wallstreet and the same problem. I have installed a number of drives over the years, but this has me stumped. Its got to be something simple I'm overlooking - a real forehead smacker. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here? -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
I would try to boot into 9.2.1 first and then partition the hard drive with the 8 gig partition and then install OS X this should work fine Shaack Ben Woodard wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Thinking I must have damaged something, I took the new drive out and replaced the old. It started up and I was able to boot the 10.2 disk. Put the new drive in an enclosure, hooked it up to my G4 and formatted and partioned it. Back into the Wallstreet and the same problem. I have installed a number of drives over the years, but this has me stumped. Its got to be something simple I'm overlooking - a real forehead smacker. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
