Re: HELP!! I think I killed my iMac...

2008-09-04 Thread Charles Davis
On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:44 PM, lrbarrios wrote: > > I've already tried that. It doesn't appear. You're not supposed to > be able to boot from a USB drive (supposedly), but I did it on the > 9.2.2 on the Bondi. The weird thing was that after I booted from the > 9.2.2 on the USB drive, I went to S

Re: HELP!! I think I killed my iMac...

2008-09-04 Thread Brian Troisi
This has happened to me on an iBook G4 at school running Panther. Turns out it was the hard drive needed to be replaced. And unfortunately, PowerPC macs cannot boot from USB drives :( There are hacks using Open Firmware to make a PowerPC mac boot from a USB device. Google search "Boot PowerP

Re: HELP!! I think I killed my iMac...

2008-09-04 Thread lrbarrios
I've already tried that. It doesn't appear. You're not supposed to be able to boot from a USB drive (supposedly), but I did it on the 9.2.2 on the Bondi. The weird thing was that after I booted from the 9.2.2 on the USB drive, I went to Startup Disk to change back to the internal drive and even

re: HELP!! I think I killed my iMac...

2008-09-04 Thread Robert MacLeay
Two possibilities when an older Mac running OS X won't boot into a newly installed version of OS 9: 1) The System Folder was not blessed. (You did a drag-install.) 2) The drive was initialized for OS X without the optional OS 9 drivers. I would try mounting the Bondi on the another Mac in target d

Re: HELP!! I think I killed my iMac...

2008-09-04 Thread Charles Davis
On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:06 PM, lrbarrios wrote: > > Well, I'm sure it's probably not THAT bad. There is a very long story > behind all of this, but I'll spare you the details unless they become > necessary. I'll just explain my problem, as I see it. > > The abridged version... > > iMac G3 (600Mhz

HELP!! I think I killed my iMac...

2008-09-04 Thread lrbarrios
Well, I'm sure it's probably not THAT bad. There is a very long story behind all of this, but I'll spare you the details unless they become necessary. I'll just explain my problem, as I see it. The abridged version... iMac G3 (600Mhz Graphite, 256MB, Tiger) I copied a working 9.2.2 System fold

Re: Remote connection question

2008-09-04 Thread lrbarrios
I actually typed this the other night, but for some reason it didn't post through e-mail. You've probably already got your problem resolved, but for what it's worth, here's what I had to say... Dynamic DNS was going to be my suggestion. I use it myself. Just make sure your FIL has his current

Re: Remote connection question

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Le
Thanks for the tip, Bruce. -- From: "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:03 AM To: Subject: Re: Remote connection question > > > On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Andrew Le wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a similar s

Re: Imac g3 rev B will not boot from cd.

2008-09-04 Thread Brian Troisi
> Try some troubleshooting steps. Do the CD's boot any other mac? Is the optical drive able to successfully read other discs? Is the RAM enough? I think the most common issue may be ram. Since it runs OS 8.6, which only requires 32 mb ram, the computer may have at the minimum, 32 or 64 mb

Re: Remote connection question

2008-09-04 Thread Dan
At 8:48 AM -0700 9/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >DHCP addresses can change, yes, if the modem is always on, many >providers don't change them around that often so they're 'mostly >static'. It depends on the local network segment. Comcast here may >be different from Comcast there. Comcast's p

Re: Remote connection question

2008-09-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Andrew Le wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a similar situation. > > Say I have Verizon DSL modem/router. > > And I have say two Macs connected to it with internal IPs (192.*.*.*). > > The modem itself has an external IP, but don't I need to configure > the modem > itself s

Re: Remote connection question

2008-09-04 Thread Clark Martin
Andrew Le wrote: > Hi, > > I have a similar situation. > > Say I have Verizon DSL modem/router. > > And I have say two Macs connected to it with internal IPs (192.*.*.*). > > The modem itself has an external IP, but don't I need to configure the modem > itself so that my two Macs have separat

Re: Remote connection question

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Le
Hi, I have a similar situation. Say I have Verizon DSL modem/router. And I have say two Macs connected to it with internal IPs (192.*.*.*). The modem itself has an external IP, but don't I need to configure the modem itself so that my two Macs have separate external IPs known to the world so

Re: Remote connection question

2008-09-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:05 PM, William Spencer wrote: > Hi there: I have installed Vine Server on my father-in-law's Mini > twenty miles away (running Leopard), and the Chicken of the VNC > viewer here on mine (running Tiger). Now: Since we are both Comcast > subscribers, we both have cable modems.

Re: Kensington Turbo Mouse Tiger Compatability

2008-09-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Kurt Piepenburg wrote: > That means it should work with the keyboard, but maybe not the Turbo > Mouse. (He doesn't remember if the Turbo Mouse had a driver diskette > or not.) My question is: Has anyone used an ADB Kensington Turbo > Mouse with an iMate as an in

Re: Ardour on Mac

2008-09-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:39 AM, KP wrote: > > iMac G3 (550MH), 10.4.11 > > I have downloaded Ardour and Jack Pilet, but in order for it to run I > have to have Jack Pilet running. When I bring up Jack Pilet, its icon > briefly appears on the bottom, then dissappears and Jack Pilet won't > start.

Imac g3 rev B will not boot from cd.

2008-09-04 Thread vacputer
My recently acquired imac g3 rev b will not boot from either of my mac os 9 disks. i have had the same problem with another imac from the same source, but it booted from my set of os 10.3.9 disks. when booted with my (YES THEY ARE BOOTABLE) disks inserted and the C key held down, it reads the disk

Kensington Turbo Mouse Tiger Compatability

2008-09-04 Thread Kurt Piepenburg
A neighbor was running a Quadra 650 on System 7.1.1 until last week (!) when he bought a used Mac Mini (PowerPC, Tiger 10.4.11). He has an Apple ADB keyboard and a Kensington Turbo Mouse he would like use with the Tiger Mini. It seems Griffin's ABD to USB iMate will support devices in OS X as l

Ardour on Mac

2008-09-04 Thread KP
iMac G3 (550MH), 10.4.11 I have downloaded Ardour and Jack Pilet, but in order for it to run I have to have Jack Pilet running. When I bring up Jack Pilet, its icon briefly appears on the bottom, then dissappears and Jack Pilet won't start. Any Ideas? --~--~-~--~~~--