Trying to boot Wallstreet from external SCSI disk

2004-02-03 Thread Gavin Tiplady
Wallstreet 292Mhz - 256Mb - Mac OS X 10.2.6. As recommended by people on this list in relation to an earlier query (thank you!) I have acquired a second hand external SCSI drive (68 pin enclosure containing HP 18.2Gb SCSI 3 LVD/SE drive) in order to perform backups - and restores - using the

Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question

2004-02-03 Thread Stephen Passmore
Erm,.. you used a pool cue to get the price down to $300?!? You're meant to be bartering not battering... I found my Wallstreet in a pawn shop. It was $300 with a nice carrying case, the video adaptor, charger, and a battery that holds a good charge. And a working PRAM battery. They wanted

Battery

2004-02-03 Thread vicki
Hi all first mail with my new to me Lombard. Need help straight away I want to sort out the battery, and I remember a while ago that someone posted a url to down load something to flash the battery and recon it, can anyone remember the url please. Vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Orinoco Gold on Lombard

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Smykla
Noel, Worked well for me. Open source drivers are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34453package_id=30867 The only quirks: Install twice for a working setup, and don't remove/install the card unless the machine is powered down. IOExperts also has commercial ($19.95)

Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question

2004-02-03 Thread David Thrower
--- Stephen Passmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm,.. you used a pool cue to get the price down to $300?!? You're meant to be bartering not battering... LMAO! Best, David __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

Re: Trying to boot Wallstreet from external SCSI disk

2004-02-03 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 03/02/04 03:47, Gavin Tiplady at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] However when I try and boot from the newly copied image (i.e. set it using StartUp Disk and reboot), the Mac simply goes into target disk mode, displaying the floating SCSI symbol instead of booting. What am I doing wrong?

Re: PRAM/Backup battery in WallStreet - Battery Reset

2004-02-03 Thread Mike Turner
On 3/2/04 2:02 am, Paul Nelson said: At 11:28 PM + 2/2/04, JOHN.E.ABRAHAM wrote: Does this mean that before i go about trying to replace the PRAM battery I first need to try and recharge it. For sure, that's the first thing to do if you haven't had it on external power for an extended

Re: Keep my pismo or ??

2004-02-03 Thread markemmanuel
I'd wait a few more months to a year since the G5 will be going into the books soon. as someone has said, the iBooks and Powerbooks don't have the great features that the Pismo had. Applw has been working to replace the G4 in their high end products. In addition to the new 64bit processor,

Re: Import Hotmail address book into Mac Mail app - advice required

2004-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:17 PM, simon goslin wrote: G'day, How do I go out doing this as I've several hundred address and inputting them one-by-one would take rather along time, me thinks. Look for some means of exporting your addresses from hotmail. If text mode is offered, it's likely ldif. It

Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question

2004-02-03 Thread peter webster
You mean, even I can write a bad sentence? Shocked, I am. Erm,.. you used a pool cue to get the price down to $300?!? You're meant to be bartering not battering... I found my Wallstreet in a pawn shop. It was $300 with a nice carrying case, the video adaptor, charger, and a battery that holds a

MAC PBK PRAM/Backup battery in WallStreet

2004-02-03 Thread James G \Jim\ Hardwick
20040203 On 3/2/04 2:02 am, Paul Nelson said: At 11:28 PM + 2/2/04, JOHN.E.ABRAHAM wrote: Does this mean that before i go about trying to replace the PRAM battery I first need to try and recharge it. For sure, that's the first thing to do if you haven't had it on external power

Re: Keep my pismo or ??

2004-02-03 Thread Jim Scolman
Hello All, I vote to keep the Pismo. I have one and it is great. I have upped the RAM and installed a bigger HD, I have Panther on the way. The future holds a G4 upgrade and a Burner. It is a great laptop. Jim. -- Jim Scolman Artist Photography Services Studio Quality Photography for

Re: slow panther

2004-02-03 Thread Eric Morrison
Repair permissions... Eric On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 31, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Kurt Appling wrote: Hi all, I am useing panther in a TI 800 w/512 megs ram,and am anoyed that my machine is now noticably slower in functioning than it was running the earlier 10.1 and

What's going on???

2004-02-03 Thread kochkodin
I have received 4 bounce notices from the G-Books Admin in the last 10 hrsWhen I repliwd to each one, I got the notice that a subscription had been entered under my addy...Anyone else get this?? Regards, Mike -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Networkable Laser MFC

2004-02-03 Thread Eric Morrison
Hi: I'm looking for a networkable laser MFC (print, copy, fax are our critical uses... scanning not so much) for my boss. I'm looking at the Brother 8420 (with D-Link network interface) that has Postscript emulation and should work fine over the network (anyone tried this?) and the higher end

Re: Trying to boot Wallstreet from external SCSI disk

2004-02-03 Thread Gary Goldberg
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gavin Tiplady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Trying to boot Wallstreet from external SCSI disk Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:47:25 +1100 Wallstreet 292Mhz - 256Mb - Mac OS X 10.2.6. As recommended by people on this list in relation to an earlier query (thank

Re: What's going on???

2004-02-03 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 03/02/04 17:34, kochkodin kochkodin@verizon.net wrote: I have received 4 bounce notices from the G-Books Admin in the last 10 hrsWhen I repliwd to each one, I got the notice that a subscription had been entered under my addy...Anyone else get this?? Regards, Mike Nope, not me so

Re: Orinoco Gold on Lombard

2004-02-03 Thread rgeaston
On Feb 3, 2004, at 6:46 AM, Noel Van_Damme wrote: I want to use the Orinoco Gold card on a Lombard with OS X (10.2.8). Is that a good combination? Where can I find the drivers? Thanks, Noel. http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net using it to send this e-mail from my lombard -- Robert AOL IM

Re: What's going on???

2004-02-03 Thread Tim
On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 05:34 PM, kochkodin wrote: I have received 4 bounce notices from the G-Books Admin in the last 10 hrsWhen I repliwd to each one, I got the notice that a subscription had been entered under my addy...Anyone else get this?? Regards, Mike You MUST reply to

Re: Keep my pismo or ??

2004-02-03 Thread James Rohde
On 2/3/04, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: So let the opinions roll, new- used -stay-upgrade Since I have a (for now, not working) Pismo (till I can afford the repairs to the sound/I-O card and a new battery), so I'm a tad biased. Previously have had IIcx, Quadra 700, and inherited my brother's

Re: PRAM/Backup battery in WallStreet - Battery Reset

2004-02-03 Thread JOHN.E.ABRAHAM
Hello Listers, Thank you all for the additional info, I did notice the link to the site for good battery prices and will also try the battery reset programme. I have noticed that the battery is not being seen by the PB. It reports that the LH media bay is empty and there are no leads alight

Connecting my Lombard to a Pc

2004-02-03 Thread Tom Meade
Never thought about it until now - but I'd like to hook up with my girlfriend's Dell (they all seem to have Dells - fishing in shallow water?) and really don't know what to expect. Can she copy my files to her drive under OS 9 via USB. Is this a File Sharing exercise, and how do I do it from the

Re: Connecting my Lombard to a Pc

2004-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 3, 2004, at 5:07 PM, Tom Meade wrote: Never thought about it until now - but I'd like to hook up with my girlfriend's Dell (they all seem to have Dells - fishing in shallow water?) and really don't know what to expect. Can she copy my files to her drive under OS 9 via USB. No. Is this a

Re: Connecting my Lombard to a Pc

2004-02-03 Thread Tim
On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 07:21 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Is this a File Sharing exercise, and how do I do it from the Dell side? OTOH, if you upgrade to OSX 10.3 on that mac of yours, no problemo! share away! set the native file sharing on both systems, enable 'Windows file Sharing' in

Re: Connecting my Lombard to a Pc

2004-02-03 Thread Andrew, a Mac Freak
Never thought about it until now - but I'd like to hook up with my girlfriend's Dell (they all seem to have Dells - fishing in shallow water?) and really don't know what to expect. Can she copy my files to her drive under OS 9 via USB Never heard of USB file tranfering, but infared might work.

Re: Trying to boot Wallstreet from external SCSI disk

2004-02-03 Thread Gavin Tiplady
Are you sure you can boot from a SCSI device in 10.2.6? No, that's what I'm trying to ascertain. I know people here have said they use SCSI drives for -backup- on Mac OS X, not sure about booting. thanks, GT -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: 10.3.2 on Pismo?

2004-02-03 Thread Gavin Tiplady
Thanks Eric, I had a huge number of entries in my 'machines' repository in the NetInfo manager (blocking ad server sites and redirecting them to localhost), and when I blew them away Safari speeded right up. The clue was that it was slow until it had resolved the address of a new web site,

Re: Trying to boot Wallstreet from external SCSI disk

2004-02-03 Thread Gavin Tiplady
In OS 9.1 I can boot from a bootable Jaz disk connected to my Wall Street via the HDI-30 SCSI adapter by holding down the Option+Cmd+Delete+Shift keys. mmm.. it seems to make it do something differently - instead of the floating SCSI icon indicating target disk mode I get a pure white screen,

Re: What's going on???

2004-02-03 Thread peter webster
Think: Micro$oft. I have received 4 bounce notices from the G-Books Admin in the last 10 hrsWhen I repliwd to each one, I got the notice that a subscription had been entered under my addy...Anyone else get this?? Regards, Mike -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

..red stripe Pismo...

2004-02-03 Thread Jim Scolman
Hi All, well I dropped the first computer of my lifeit had to be my beloved Pismo. It fell about two feet onto a carpeted floor, face down, that is, both screen and keyboard facing the floor. It still works but it now has a one pixel wide, vertical, red line about 1/3 of the way from the

PRAM Battery

2004-02-03 Thread Ely Zimmerman
Re: PRAM Battery. I had the same problems on my Lombard and was advised to download the free battery reset program from apple. It worked. The formerly dead battery now hold 2.5 hours of charge and the pram is fine. I don't recall the exact apple page but the advice came from this list, from

Re: ..red stripe Pismo...

2004-02-03 Thread Andrew, a Mac Freak
Sounds like a loose video cable. Can't help you with opening the case, though, since I've never owned a Pismo : ( -- Andrew, a Mac Freak -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: ..red stripe Pismo...

2004-02-03 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 03/02/04 21:35, Jim Scolman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, well I dropped the first computer of my lifeit had to be my beloved Pismo. It fell about two feet onto a carpeted floor, face down, that is, both screen and keyboard facing the floor. It still works but it now has a one

Re: PRAM Battery

2004-02-03 Thread Hoju Dingo
On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 01:47 PM, Ely Zimmerman wrote: Re: PRAM Battery. I had the same problems on my Lombard and was advised to download the free battery reset program from apple. It worked. The formerly dead battery now hold 2.5 hours of charge and the pram is fine. I don't

Unknown source of Freezing Wallstreet

2004-02-03 Thread Sid Barras
Hi All, My wallstreet (266mhz, 512mb RAM) has managed to cling to a chronic problem of freezing only moments after startup (most of the time). I say Cling to the problem, because it is still there after these steps to correct it: different hard drive. Reinstalled system folders. Modem board

Re: Orinoco Gold on Lombard

2004-02-03 Thread Tsuki Hoshijima
Why install twice? And do the files installed in the first installation have to be erased before the second installation? Richard Smykla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noel, Worked well for me. Open source drivers are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34453package_id=30867 The

WallStreet YoYoYoYo

2004-02-03 Thread Paul Stamsen
- Paul Stamsen writes: - - The (new) yoyo arrived today. - Alas, did not seem to fix the problem the Wallstreet still will not work without a stack of index cards under the dohickey! - R Farrington states: - Argh. Its that damned design, some people have wrapped the metal plug on the -

Re: Orinoco Gold on Lombard

2004-02-03 Thread Tsuki Hoshijima
Also, does that driver work on Panther? I know they have versions out for Jag and 10.1 but nothing on their site refers to Panther. Does that mean the project is dead, or is it just moving really really slowly? That's the one thing keeping me from moving to OS X. -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Unknown source of Freezing Wallstreet

2004-02-03 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 03/12/04 23:07, Sid Barras at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, My wallstreet (266mhz, 512mb RAM) has managed to cling to a chronic problem of freezing only moments after startup (most of the time). I say Cling to the problem, because it is still there after these steps to correct it:

Re: Unknown source of Freezing Wallstreet

2004-02-03 Thread Sid Barras
Laurent Daudelinon 2/3/04 11:21 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all for thoughtful suggestions. Sid B Have you tried to put back the original memory? -Laurent. No. Haven't tried that-- I did the typical RAM upgrade-- took out the original pair of 64mb cards,