Re: booting questions

2004-10-28 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 1:36 PM +1000 10/28/04, Ben Dyer wrote: As that document indicates, the Startup Manager is only available on iMac/PowerMac G4/Pismo machines or later. Yep, that's what the URL says. On the Wallstreet, holding down 'option' at startup dumps you straight into OS

Re: booting questions

2004-10-28 Thread Clark Martin
At 9:18 PM -0600 10/27/04, Bob wrote: The National Enquirer reports at 3:57 PM -0700 10/27/04, Clark Martin wrote: At 12:59 PM -0400 10/27/04, Herbert Goodfriend wrote: Unless someone proves me wrong, I'm almost positive that the Option-boot will *not* work on the Wallstreet. Another one of the

Re: booting questions

2004-10-27 Thread Herbert Goodfriend
Unless someone proves me wrong, I'm almost positive that the Option-boot will *not* work on the Wallstreet. Another one of the quirks of venerable Wallstreet. Option-boot (aka Startup Manager) is available only on machines with Open Firmware. I believe that the first Power Book to be so

Re: booting questions

2004-10-27 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 27/10/04 12:59, Herbert Goodfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless someone proves me wrong, I'm almost positive that the Option-boot will *not* work on the Wallstreet. Another one of the quirks of venerable Wallstreet. Option-boot (aka Startup Manager) is available only on machines

Re: booting questions

2004-10-27 Thread Clark Martin
At 12:59 PM -0400 10/27/04, Herbert Goodfriend wrote: Unless someone proves me wrong, I'm almost positive that the Option-boot will *not* work on the Wallstreet. Another one of the quirks of venerable Wallstreet. Option-boot (aka Startup Manager) is available only on machines with Open Firmware.

Re: booting questions

2004-10-27 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 3:57 PM -0700 10/27/04, Clark Martin wrote: At 12:59 PM -0400 10/27/04, Herbert Goodfriend wrote: Unless someone proves me wrong, I'm almost positive that the Option-boot will *not* work on the Wallstreet. Another one of the quirks of venerable Wallstreet.

Re: booting questions

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Dyer
As that document indicates, the Startup Manager is only available on iMac/PowerMac G4/Pismo machines or later. On the Wallstreet, holding down 'option' at startup dumps you straight into OS 9, no questions asked. Well, for the most part it does. There's all sorts of PRAM/OF oddness that's

Re: booting questions

2004-10-25 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 12:45 PM -0400 10/24/04, dan_A wrote: On Oct 24, 2004, at 12:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

booting questions

2004-10-24 Thread 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

Re: booting questions

2004-10-24 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 24/10/2004 09:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 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

Re: booting questions

2004-10-24 Thread dan_A
On Oct 24, 2004, at 12:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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