It could be the IDE controller is wonky. I had that happen in an iBook. Do
you have a Firewire or USB drive you can boot from.
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Apr 9, 2018, at 4:38 AM, 'Juergen Grieb' via iMac Group
> wrote:
>
>
I have two Airport Utilities, "AirPort Utility” & "AirPort Admin Utility for
Graphite and Snow”. Each is for a specific set of Airport models with, AFAIK,
no overlap between them. Each utility only “sees” it’s set of Airports. You
may need the other utility.
Clark Marti
The Airport Express I used had an Ethernet port on it you should be able to
connect a cable directly from that to a computer and access that way.
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 8:20 AM, William Spencer wrote:
>
> Hi there: Th
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Johnson
> wrote:
>
> The hard drives I can see, but what did those poor CD drives ever do to
> anyone?? :-)
>
> (sez the guy currently degaussing about 150 3.5” flo
Also, try creating a new user and see if the problem exists under that user
Clark Martin
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
> On May 17, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Bruce Johnson
> wrote:
>
>
>> On May 17, 2016, at 6:35 AM, davidw1235 via iMa
py it from there to the iMac or should I transfer it to a CD or DVD
>> on my firewire ext Drive OR should I use the 10.5 Disks to update the OS?
>>
>> Will I need more memory?
>>
>> Your advices welcome as ever!
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>> On Thu
t;
> Will I need more memory?
>
> Your advices welcome as ever!
>
> Colin
>
>> On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 6:47:30 PM UTC+1, Clark Martin wrote:
>> Put the Pismo in Target Disk Mode (pressing 't' while booting, the FireWire
>> symbol should appear), con
Put the Pismo in Target Disk Mode (pressing 't' while booting, the FireWire
symbol should appear), connect it via a FireWire cable to the iMac, boot the
iMac while holding down the Option key and select the Pismo's drive to boot
from. Then use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy it to the iMac drive.
S
ger is the most recent version that can be readily or practically installed
(Leopard, 10.5 CAN be but there is no real advantage)
That said, that vintage of Safari will be limited on some (many???) current web
sites due to Flash and Java not being up to date. It should work well enough
for many s
Agreed, mostly, companies put such requirements on their products to avoid
supporting older systems.
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
>>
>> Can’t new exter
I don't know why you would need any sort of trick, I maintained a ton
(literally) of that vintage iMac running OSes 9.2, 10.2, 10.3 & 10.4 and only
ever needed to press 'c' or use the option feature to get them to boot a CD.
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
Try removing the battery. A dying battery an cause a G3 iMac to not power on.
Yet a dead or missing battery isn't a problem.
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
> On Nov 5, 2014, at 10:10 AM, kaypriest wrote:
>
> I have a G3 and it no longer will power up.
Are you sure it is powered by USB. A DVD writer can pull a fair bit of power,
more than USB can supply.
Does the computer see it in System Profiler?
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
> On Oct 31, 2014, at 9:11 AM, robert Dee wrote:
>
> I just bought a LG
First step, Launch System Profiler (Apple Menu - About this Mac - More
Info...), select USB and see if the drive is appearing.
When you say it "doesn't read it" what does that mean? It doesn't appear in
Disk Utility, you insert a disk and it doesn't mount on the
On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:54 PM, N. Shani wrote:
> Dan, all questions are valid, so let me try and expand:
>
> - What *in particular* is slow? Everything. Trying to launch any application
> is a long wait. Didn't use to be so. Opening another tab in Safari, saving a
> document, opening a document,
On Oct 31, 2013, at 9:11 AM, John AOL wrote:
>
> On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Fabian Fang wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> I actually have another old iMac and I connected the two and put one on the
>>> other but could not unlock the software and still cannot restart from a
>>> backup.
>>
>> Some 2000 i
On Aug 10, 2013, at 10:19 PM, Eric Volker wrote:
> Never mind, 5 minutes after I posted this I found a solution. Well, a partial
> solution anyway. I had been trying a number of Logitech and Microsoft mice
> with the Mac and none of them would work. Finally, I decided to try a Genuine
> Apple(
Sent from an iPhone, don't ask whose.
On Aug 4, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Charliefrown wrote:
>
> ...noticed that its GPU temp is over 80 degreees Celsius (=176 F !) when
> handling ordinary tasks like web browsing.
>
> Do you think it's worth to put some silver thermal paste between GPU and
> h
On Jul 15, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Stuart wrote:
> My G5 20" would not connect to my wireless ADSL Router. Tried to update the
> system, (10.5.8) but needed to install 10.5.6 first. I believe (rather late
> at night) I clicked 'Archive & Install' but disclicked on 'save network
> settings' as I wan
On May 20, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Eraina and Richard jenkins wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I've a good friend who has owned a 23 in iMac (G5) since new.
> Recently, he went to turned it on and it gave a bit of a splat and just
> did nothing. Not being a tecchie, he went to the local Apple shop.
> They t
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com wrote:
> Low End Mac has made the transition to WordPress, which allows our writers to
> submit content online, allows our readers to add comments, and now allows us
> to run our own forums.
>
> Once upon a time there were only G3 iMacs, a
On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Fuffkin wrote:
> My son snapped off the power button of my imac g4 (it tended to be a little
> sticky and he used a little too much force trying to unstick it). Anyway, the
> mac was in great shape, no problems at all since the day I bought it, but now
> I can't tur
On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:03 PM, ben kernan wrote:
> This evening I was trying to setup a new folder for Escape Velocity Nova on
> my external hd & noticed that I had the option of booting from the partition
> which contains the CCC backup for my wife's laptop, which contains 10.7...
> Since my 24
On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:36 PM, D. Fabel wrote:
> My daughter is using a few old iMac G3 slot-loaders for a kiosk-style
> informational video for her robotics team's upcoming competition. She has
> put together a video in iMovie, but we can't seem to find the "right"
> settings to get the video
On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:22 PM, b...@wa.net wrote:
I hope to soon be replacing my flaky core duo imac with a slightly
newer core2duo. I am currently using snow leopard, and will be
starting out with the same on the newer machine, with the
possibility of upping to lion later. I would like to be
On Aug 16, 2012, at 8:34 PM, rebtevye wrote:
> USE CASE:
> Supporting a grade school Mac lab and am trying to make a consistent load for
> all of the iMacs (G3, Indigo, 500MB RAM), with OS 10.4 and OS 9.2.1
>
> PROCESS:
> I followed the recommendations in How to Clone Mac OS X to a New Hard Dr
On Jan 23, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Dan wrote:
>
> At 6:19 PM -0500 1/23/2012, Amato Michael J. wrote:
>> How about using a search "find" and spotlight
>> I've used both successfully.
Just make sure you search for the app name, publisher's name (keep it simple),
the company domain name (pref files (s
On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:51 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
> I just got a G4 iMac. It's a 15" 800MHZ model. I wanted to run Apple Hardware
> Test on it to be sure it was solid before I start working on it. It currently
> has 10.3.9 on it and the mouse works fine, but as soon as I boot into the
> hardwar
On Jan 12, 2012, at 5:50 AM, PaulBX wrote:
> I've just bought an iMac G3 350Mhz from eBay. I wanted a cheap
> introduction to the world of the Mac and tt seemed that all other Macs
> were a lot more expensive. At the moment it's got only 192Mb RAM, a
> 7Gb hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive. The inst
clearer. It works for me.
At least it wasn't Lotus Notes. That is my all time "favorite" head banger.
But it made me money. But then again so did Word and it's Fast Save "feature".
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I&#x
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Vicky%2C%20on%20the%20shelf.jpg
I think it's a global cat conspiracy. They are pissed over Computer Aided
Tomography being (originally) called CAT. After that they are all
anti-computer.
>
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consul
On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Bill Spencer wrote:
> This has gotten very frustrating. I spent most of the weekend either trying
> to figure out terminology (bridge mode vs. client mode vs. STAProxy) or
> arguing with the Airport Express, with multiple soft (while already plugged
> in) and hard
have to ask, bout what's a wall wart?
It's WART, we're not talking vegetables or beer here.
And Wall Wart isn't a funny term, it's a very common usage.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information
o something under maybe $30 would be fine, I think...)
It's probably cheaper to replace the router than to FIND someone who will work
on it.
>
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
--
Yo
On Nov 23, 2011, at 8:23 AM, "D. Fabel" wrote:
> Looking for a little help here. I've got an Indigo iMac, 500MHz, with 512MB
> ram that has a CD drive only. I'm trying to get movies onto it but running
> into problems.
>
> First off, DVD Player will not open as it knows there isn't an intern
oth a built in
modem and an HP scanner / printer / copier attached. Whenever we upgrade it to
an intel I'll have to figure another solution. Or stop faxing.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Hig
> The current FIOS router will only do b/g/n or b/g, there is no b only mode...
I was suggesting it might have a NO 'b' mode, some do.
>
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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Express (g only) to create a wireless
> network - low and behold my iMac connects just fine using WPA.
>
> Any thoughts out there on why I'm good to go with the AE but not with the
> FIOS router???
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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that discusses WPA on Tiger with original Airport
cards.
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2594?viewlocale=en_US>
>
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Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Bruce Hazzard wrote:
> Hi, Can anybody tell me if a airport card can be installed in a SE G3 imac
> early 2001 Blue& white Dalmation? And if it can be what do I need to do it?
> Thanks Bruce
>
You need the iMac airport adapter. Might be hard to
as a good price on large cans of air in 4-packs.
>
> Finally, when dusting out strange or new computers it's always helpful to do
> so out of doors. I have evicted live spiders with canned air in the past, and
> even the normal dust rhinoceroses can be quite messy if evicted
On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Mike Linnett wrote:
On 2 Feb 2011, at 18:38, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 1, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Papa wrote:
I'm New to iMac. I'm interested in getting a game controller
and the
wireless mouse leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to
playing a game.
What ar
han leaded
solder. If you don't know how to solder (this isn't the time to learn) maybe
you can find someone who can.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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>>> I was wondering if it's possible just to put in something stronger from
>>> a parts machine.
>>>
>
The OP may want to post to the right list.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the In
gt; I currently have the mac's hard drive partitioned into 3: 1GB for
> System 9, 6GB for OS X, and the remaining 53GB for storage and files.
>
You're going to have to free up a blank partition if you want to install a
Linux distro.
> Thanks,
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
used to just
running the installer and not having to do anything to make things work. Linux
always seems to need something tweaked.
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On Dec 16, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
> On Dec 16, 7:04 pm, Clark Martin wrote:
>
>>
>> It sounds like a power supply failure (or other power related circuitry.)
>
> So the power supply remains energized by AC power after shutdown as
> long as the iMac is
ing there wouldn't be anything in the logs.
>
> Is there such a thing as a partial startup with no bong from not pressing the
> button hard enough?
> Can the machine shut down only partially from the Apple Menu command?
> Should I look at other logs in Console?
No, it'
input levels?
Try launching Audio MIDI Setup (it's in the Utilities Folder). Select the
appropriate input source and check the gain. For my MacBook Pro my Built-in
Mic shows a gain (Volume) of 7.00 dB for both channels 1 & 2. Audio MIDI Setup
is something of a second set of prefe
wing the computer screen via HDMI is MUCH better than trying to using
S-Video or NTSC composite video. Kind of like the difference between sitting
in front of the screen and sitting about 40 feet away, respectively.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a de
On Nov 26, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
I recently bought a 65" Plasma screen TV for my power mac G4
sawtooth. I am thinking about getting one of those DVI to S-video/
TV input adapters that Apple has for my computer to achieve better
screen resolution. Currently, the screen is a
lly.
I had it happen on an iBook G4. The data on the HD was corrupt. After some
testing it definitely appeared that the HD IDE interface was munged. I got a
replacement machine and swapped the motherboards. I use the replacement
machine (now with the bad IDE) with a FW drive as a spare computer
On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
> Actually, I am able to get a 1TB IDE HDD off of OWC.
I see a 750 Gb but no 1Tb.
<http://eshop.macsales.com/search/3.5+Internal+IDE/ATA>
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a desig
ngs?
>
I can't say about Disk Warrior but I have booted OS X CDs and DVDs from a FW
drive (and with help from XPostFacto from a USB drive). As a guess I'd say
that DW's publisher is just doing some CYA so they don't have to deal with
supporting booting from an external
is doesn't apply to
PATA as it doesn't look as if there will be any PATA drives over 500Gb (unless
I've missed something). But it still applies to SATA.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Su
DVI to HDMI but since it has DVI you might as well use that. HDMI also
carries audio but the DVI out from your computer won't so it has no advantage.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
password.
If it isn't asking for a Firmware Password then it sounds like you may have a
problem with your CD drive. Have you tried holding down the option key at boot?
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information S
ilize dual
> processors it may seem so, but apps that can only utilize one CPU at a
> time may seem sluggish.
It will help even machines that aren't written for multithreading. There are a
lot of system tasks running at the same time that can make use of a second CPU.
Clark Martin
54. And that's not
including two Newtons
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Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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On Sep 20, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Ashgrove wrote:
> On Sep 20, 9:13 pm, Clark Martin wrote:
>> One nice thing is that you just run the software once, it doesn't install
>> any software, it just modifies a setting in OF.
> Clark,
>
> Now that you mentioned that, I rea
owerbooks were the high end machine and
Apple wanted you to pay for those features. The software's documentation will
tell you if it runs on a particular machine.
One nice thing is that you just run the software once, it doesn't install any
software, it just modifies a setting in OF.
had G3 iMacs boot from a USB harddrive. It took a while, I do't
recall the specifics but it wasn't longer than 30 minutes. I've also booted a
clamshell ibook from a USB DVD drive, again, slow but it worked.
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Macintosh / Internet Consulting
&
r netiquette
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c, especially if I cannot get a CD/DVD to boot up.
>
> I thought of taking out the hard drive, placing it in a G4
> Quicksilver, and installing it on that. But I'm not sure that would
> work.
That should work just fine but I'd start with the above.
>
> Can one instal
WheIJ
Like I said, it is a pleasure to be able to share my enthusiasm for
iMac G3s!
onwards and upwards,
Emma
Been there done that (even have a T-Shirt but not specific to education).
You might want to post (roughly) where you are, people might have some
oldies they'd be willing to su
On 6/17/10 6:06 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
On Jun 17, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
I acquired an iMac G5 20", no camera (A1076), it doesn't power up.
On plugging in the power cord one diagnostic LED comes on.
Resetting the SMC doesn't help. PRAM battery is good. Accordin
On 6/17/10 6:19 PM, Google Photoshop Elements wrote:
On Jun 17, 5:30 pm, Clark Martin wrote:
I acquired an iMac G5 20", no camera (A1076), it doesn't power up. On
plugging in the power cord one diagnostic LED comes on. Resetting the
SMC doesn't help. PRAM battery is good
ut, I
replaced them (after much trials and tribulations). All the others
looked okay.
Does anyone know a likely culprit, fix, test? According to the original
owner it was taking more and more attempts (button presses) to start up
before it wouldn't start at all.
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Redwoo
I would haul it downstairs and try it both wired and wireless with the
main AP. After that I'd go the AppleCare route. Have you updated the
software to the latest version?
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Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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could also be a number of things on the logic board.
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le option in OS 9?
OS 9 did, indeed, not have an Internet Sharing feature. Internet Router
from www.sustainablesoftworks.com was the most common way to do it back
then.
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Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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reless APs for the laptops and such.
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ing connection. The door
on the bottom gives you access to install an Airport card or memory (as
well as the SMC reset and PRAM battery).
Keep looking around for a cheap copy of Mac OS.
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ll supported (and
pretty well) unofficially. Debian is good, stable and probably the
least hassle to install but it is also dated. Fedora looked good but
wasn't that stable and I kept running into permissions problems on it.
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with a slightly less than 8Gb partition at the beginning of the HD to
install OS X onto. If you have a slot loader then you don't need to
partition the drive.
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ith M$ Office or AppleWorks.
I don't have a link for Open Office, it hasn't been officially released
(last I heard) in English for Tiger (but Bulgarian is). I think it was
Bruce Johnson who had a link for it but I couldn't find it just now.
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ff is with Open Firmware Password and you
should be prompted for that.
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On 3/30/10 8:23 PM, Christian Wacker wrote:
Should have probably mentioned that this is a G3 iMac, does that fix
anything pertaining to my question?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
On 3/29/10 6:31 PM, Christian Wacker wrote:
Well, as most of you probably forgot, I
don't
support FireWire booting either.
AFAIK this is the only machine that has FW that doesn't support either
of those features. I believe there is one or more machine that didn't
support them until a firmware update was released but I don't recall
what machine(s).
P.S. Please don't cc me, I get the list so that is redundant.
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The list
For this sort of job I would probably use a 25W iron or perhaps a 40W,
depending on the size of the caps.
Of course the other big mistake is to use too much heat.
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Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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y excess solder.
There ought to be some guides on the Web you can find about these. You
might want to consider finding someone with some experience to show you
the ropes and/or do the job for you. I wouldn't recommend even a job
like this for a first timer.
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Redwood Cit
=)
There were 350 MHz slot loaders without firewire. I worked in a school
lab with 20 of them. They are kind of a fringe model, possibly an
education only model.
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ce to the target computer at 20MBps. Each leg only sends
data to the next leg at a speed it can handle.
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red a whopping 22 characters across the screen.
Commodore VIC-20. But the Volkscomputer, the Commodore 64 had a full 64K
of RAM and a processor (6502) that smoked at 1MHz. I ran a 99K program
on that 64K computer.
My first computer had 256 bytes. And it was all hand wirewrapped, by me.
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rent version of Safari and you
can run the most up to date possible programs. It will keep it usable
for the longest time.
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caused this? I was really
excited to get this machine and now this happens.
Check the battery. Or just remove it, at least to test. Most machines
of that vintage can run without it. Off hand I don't know how to access
the battery.
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Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Int
later
models that Tiger doesn't natively support is just a matter of tricking
or bypassing the installer. But I don't know if that applies to a tray
loader. Also your HD space can be an issue, depending on how big the
drive is.
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Macintosh / Inte
7;s 49-ports so the math works
out nicely.
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d have 127 people trying to type all at one time on the computer.
lol
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keyboards.
(Don't ask me how I got that number... it just got spat out on my
calculator)
I came up with 18 7-port hubs and 109 keyboards. So you've got 1.434...
keyboards too many.
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On 2/17/10 8:52 AM, John Musbach wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
To start with the ".iso" file burned to a CD-R, something the 9.10 version
doesn't.
Actually it can, but it depends on the cd-r brand, your cd burner, and
your cd burning software b
On 2/16/10 9:03 PM, williamd wrote:
On 16 Feb 2010, at 21.52, Clark Martin wrote:
SOME PPC Macs will boot from USB. It's kind of hit or miss. And in one
case I ran into it worked for OS 9 but not OS X. But in other cases I
have booted OS X from USB.
Is there a key combo or something t
On 2/14/10 9:09 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
Official support for PPC under Ubuntu disappeared a while back. But
there is a "community" supported version that is current.
I just tried putting it on a Sawtooth. The Live CD worked, briefly, if I
tried to do much of anything it locked up.
t involved sheep shaver,
and I'm not sure what that has to do with it, since a G4 is already a
PPC Mac.
SOME PPC Macs will boot from USB. It's kind of hit or miss. And in one
case I ran into it worked for OS 9 but not OS X. But in other cases I
have booted OS X from USB.
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Clark
On 2/16/10 2:00 AM, williamd wrote:
On 15 Feb 2010, at 19.32, Clark Martin wrote:
Seems kind of strange to make something that close to CD size but not
quite. And there was no note about it (that I noticed) at the download
site.
Even more strange, ubuntu does it again with early releases of
couldn't find the distro files, again the ydl folder was there but
nothing else. The company's web page links to those pages with nothing.
The YDL 5 install I have is perhaps the buggiest linux I've tried. And
my B&W G3 isn't supported on YDL 6.
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Clark Martin
Redwood
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Copy the System Folder over, reboot from that System Folder (hold down
option during boot and select the OS 9 icon), then run the firmware
updater. You have to have OS 9 on an HD and be booted from it to run
the updater.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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a computer to boot properly is much easier.
And if you were to ask why I'm doing all this, well, I don't think I can
remember why, banging my head on a post seems to have wiped out that memory.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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