Re: Quick partitioning question

2010-02-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:44 AM, William Spencer wrote: My next steps are to reformat the main drive and then put everything back as it was. I assume that I need to boot from either the backup drive or the install disc in order to do the reformat and partition, but at that point is it

Re: Quick partitioning question

2010-02-14 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 14, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:44 AM, William Spencer wrote: My next steps are to reformat the main drive and then put everything back as it was. I assume that I need to boot from either the backup drive or the install disc in order to do the

Re: iMac DV 500 - Firmware/Classic Questions

2010-02-14 Thread cduchon
Thanks Clark. If I download the NetBoot image do I burn it CD and then boot from the CD or is it installed as a part of the OS X? If its the later will it give me the ability to start the OS9 environment from OS X? - is that right or do I actually install NetBoot On Feb 13, 10:31 am, Clark

Re: imac g5 conundrum

2010-02-14 Thread John Hobbs
without thinking this used to happen to me if I started garageband the sound would come back. Is your friend using another audio program which is changing priorities? On 14 Feb 2010, at 22:47, Gladys Perez-Almiroty wrote: good sunday to all: my friend inherited my imac g5 running tiger up

Re: best unix-like system for my imac?

2010-02-14 Thread Tim
I have a 700 MHz G4 eMac that I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on. It installed with no problems, I only had to work around the known issue of getting the Nvidia graphics to work, post-installation. Everything else worked out-of-the-box: mouse, keyboard, sound, firewire, and even Airport; albeit

Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-14 Thread Mike Styer
Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep fine for a few seconds. But the hard drive will then rev up, coast, and then repeat. I think this only happens when I sleep it while it is booting up. Does anyone have any idea why this nights happen? One mans trash is

Re: Forcing Airport to 802.11a?

2010-02-14 Thread Ashgrove
Tim, AFAIK, the only way to force an original Airport card to work faster is... none. Your best bet for faster wireless access is to get a USB wifi adapter. Although a 3-foot long ethernet cable would cure all your headaches... Felix On Feb 14, 9:57 am, Tim tim@gmail.com wrote: Is there a

Re: Forcing Airport to 802.11a?

2010-02-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Tim wrote: Is there a way to force the original Airport card to work on a instead of b? I'm running Tiger on a 700 MHz G4 eMac which is about 3 feet away from my Airport Express so the operating distance is not a concern, I would just like to have the 54 Mbps

Re: Forcing Airport to 802.11a?

2010-02-14 Thread Tim
Darn, that sucks... ethernet isn't an option because the Airport Express' only ethernet port is connected to my router to make it an access point, and a USB adapter would be no good either since the first gen eMac was only 1.1 Thanks guys! - Tim -- You received this message because you are a

Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-14 Thread Clark Martin
On 2/14/10 3:34 PM, Mike Styer wrote: Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep fine for a few seconds. But the hard drive will then rev up, coast, and then repeat. I think this only happens when I sleep it while it is booting up. Does anyone have any idea why this

Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-14 Thread tyltotheler92
Hi, If you have a Western Digital Hard Drive inside in that iMac, that problem will arise. There is an issue with certain firmware versioins on the slot loader iMac G3s that would conflict with 6-80gb Western Digital Caviar HDs. Has this hard drive been replaced at any time? You may want to look