The hard drive in my iBook died. I'm trying to start from an external
hard drive that has a fully operational OS X on it, but during start
up it gets stuck with the message waiting for local disks. By this
I'm assuming it's waiting for the internal hard drive to be
recognized, which it
At 11:03 PM -0700 3/14/08, Jeff Miles wrote:
The hard drive in my iBook died. I'm trying to start from an
external hard drive that has a fully operational OS X on it, but
during start up it gets stuck with the message waiting for local
disks
How long have you waited before giving up?
How are you trying to start from the external? Using the standard
option key method?
Have you tried starting from the DVD?
On Mar 15, 2008, at 2:03 AM, Jeff Miles wrote:
How do I get the machine to start from the external and ignore the
internal, or local disks?
How is the external hard drive connected to the iBook? Do you know for
a fact that the fully operational OS X is a bootable disk?
Jeff Miles wrote:
The hard drive in my iBook died. I'm trying to start from an
external hard drive that has a fully operational OS X on it, but
during
How do I get the machine to start from the external and ignore the
internal, or local disks?
Immediately upon startup press the following 4 keys: Command, Option,
Shift, Delete (Backspace). This will lock out the local disk and should
allow the other disk to take over. Keep holding the keys
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Vicky you prove my point.
I thought she proved mine. She is in effect in a straightjacket and this
prevents her getting DSL. Given complete freedon she would get DSL.
Given _complete_ freedom, I said I'd choose FiOS. I haven't seen
any technical
Vicky! You are letting silly things like facts get in the way! Tom has
spoken...DSL is better it doesn't matter what you've actually experienced.
There are no other factors...Tom's word is law! I'm calling all my poor sap
cable modem using friends who are actually getting 20mbit right now and
It's connected through a firewire cable. And yes, it's a fully
operation OS X. I'd assume it's a bootable disk since it was a drive
out of a fully operation computer. It was just removed, put in an
external case and then connected to the iBook via the firewire cable.
Jeff M
On Mar 15,
A half hour on the longest try. I figure that's enough.
Jeff M
On Mar 15, 2008, at 6:13 AM, Roger D. Parish wrote:
At 11:03 PM -0700 3/14/08, Jeff Miles wrote:
The hard drive in my iBook died. I'm trying to start from an
external hard drive that has a fully operational OS X on
Tried that, as mentioned in a previous reply. I've used all the key
combo's mentioned on this page, http://www.davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
I just need to know what it means when it says waiting for local
disks. The ibooks internal drive is fused solid. I can't hear it,
I've used every method I can think of. I used every key combo
suggested here; http://www.davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
I still run up against the message of waiting for local disks. My
question is, what the hell is local disks?
Jeff M
On Mar 15, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Matthew
The European countries may look bad but the dollar has dropped
dramatically in relation to the euro lately.
gerald wrote:
yea, like ireland or spain or italy. they gotta bounce soon.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=IBEX:IND
Blah, Blah Blah.
All this cable/DSL talk got me wondering: Is DSL any more secure/safer
than cable or vis-a-versa?
Tom Piwowar wrote:
I never knock the competition. All I can say is that in Verizon
territory, you pay for 3 mbps, you get 3 mbps, or a reasonable
facsimile.
That has been my experience
The European countries may look bad but the dollar has dropped
dramatically in relation to the euro lately.
And, I shouldn't have to add, is likely to continue to, since the
radical right that has been in charge have made us so weak.
While I'm not a Mac person, there has to be some logical process that tells the
machine to boot from the external drive, not from the customary internal drive?
What is that process for modern Macs? Or some process that changes the
default boot device? Somewhere there is either flash memory
I don't know how far anecdotal evidence can resolve this issue but here is
my experience.
I was a verizon DSL subscriber from the beginning in the Washington DC
area. I was paying for 3MB, Verizon stated that they could only give me
1.5MB. and my usual experience ( from the Verizon speed test
Logical security? I don't see any basis for any difference. Physical security?
No matter what's in the cable (copper twisted pair, copper coax, or fiber),
there would be little difference, i.e. if it's strung on poles, a falling tree
would part it, but physical strength would make some
It means it can not boot from your FireWire drive. You wrote that this
drive worked previously to start up a Mac, but I do not recall you saying
that this drive was used to boot the Mac you have it currently connected
to. Apple keeps making hardware changes and these often cause old boot
disks
Note I said, one fiber optic cable. Initially threw me for a
loop [yes bad pun], but the tech said there were multiple wave
lenghts for transmit receive over the same fiber optic cable.
One optical cable can carry hundreds of different wavelengths of light
and the companies that make the
All this cable/DSL talk got me wondering: Is DSL any more secure/safer
than cable or vis-a-versa?
Depends on how it is connected. Old-style provisioning, that did not use
a router/firewall, had you sharing your home network with 500 neighbors.
So you could print stuff out on your neighbor's
Cable systems are built on ethernet technology, this is where the idea that
you share your connection with the rest of the neighborhood, you are
basically on the same network. Most if not all current cable modems are
built to filter out packets not meant for your IP therefore the old story of
After many
conversations with various Verizon Tech Support people, I am highly aware
that that DSL speed is highly dependent on distance from the local central
office. Therefore, other people may have a different average speed from
their DSL
We tend to forget that DSL is an amazing trick to get
Cable can do. Why else would Cox and Comcast be working with them to
implement the so called p4p. You seem to have the same problem with
spreading FUD about cable as you do about windows.
Mike
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doing clever stuff, like
Date:Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:09:08 -0400
From:Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop
One hundred percent
money back guarantee. That goes for just about everything we
sell.
If we can't do it we won't and we'll tell you why. If we can do it
we guarantee
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, mike wrote:
Cable systems are built on ethernet technology, this is where the idea that
you share your connection with the rest of the neighborhood, you are
basically on the same network. Most if not all current cable modems are
built to filter out packets not meant for
Um, you must know of a different radical right than I do. The
radical right I know would have slashed spending at the federal level,
slashed or outright eliminated the income tax, never would have
entered Iraq, would be out of Afghanistan by now, and would probably
have a dollar so strong
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