Using a CF card to boot a PB 5300cs?

2002-05-27 Thread Robert Eye
I've been attempting to configure a compact flash card as an emergency boot and repair disk for my 5300cs. I can successfully install the OS (8.1 in this case) and various utilities (incl. Norton, Disk Warrior). When I try to boot from the card, I first get the start of the boot sequence and

Re: Using a CF card to boot a PB 5300cs?

2002-05-27 Thread Brian
I've been attempting to configure a compact flash card as an emergency boot and repair disk for my 5300cs. I can successfully install the OS (8.1 in this case) and various utilities (incl. Norton, Disk Warrior). When I try to boot from the card, I first get the start of the boot sequence and

Re: Using a CF card to boot a PB 5300cs?

2002-05-27 Thread Brian
I've been attempting to configure a compact flash card as an emergency boot and repair disk for my 5300cs. [...] I'm booting a 1400 from CF with 8.1 just fine; Sandisk 64 meg w/ Sandisk PC Card adapter. The goal was same as yours- get a Speed disk boot disk made so I could defragment files.

Re: macOS 8.5 downloadable update?

2002-05-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
hope and the anchor wrote: so after some tweaking and looking around on the apple.com site, I finally got around to downloading and installing 8.1 (from a stock 8.0 install on a 3400c) and was about to install 8.5.1 when I notice I need 8.5 installed first...searching all over the apple.com

difficulty exporting to iDVD

2002-05-27 Thread DWT001
If this question should be directed elsewhere...pls advise. In addition to my Pismo (which is my connection to this list) I have recently obtained the new iMac in order to create iMovies, and iDVDs. I have no experience with either. I also purchased several books on these topics. I have

5300/190 REA Specifics

2002-05-27 Thread David R.
For those interested, I've located the Apple 5300/190 REA document using Google and then going to the 'cached' search result. KBase Document: 30425 http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:w4LkhmrUFFEC:til.info.apple.com/techin fo.nsf/artnum/n30425+5300,+reahl=en Dave -- PowerBooks is sponsored

Re: Using a CF card to boot a PB 5300cs?

2002-05-27 Thread Symbol Representative
Subject: Using a CF card to boot a PB 5300cs? From: Robert Eye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 02:05:14 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I try to boot from the card, I first get the start of the boot sequen= ce and the smiling MacOS screen and progress bar. I then get a

Re: macOS 8.5 downloadable update?

2002-05-27 Thread Clae
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 07:37:07 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: macOS 8.5 downloadable update? You know, now that 'Classic is Dead' you would think Apple could just put up 8.6 as a freely downloadable version. Yeah, or open-source it LOL -- David Clae Gason

Re: macOS 8.5 downloadable update?

2002-05-27 Thread hope and the anchor
I don't know if this is a stupid question, since I am new to macs in general, but someone emailed me offlist (actually, several people, who were all most helpfull -- thanks again!) and mentioned (as did others) that I needed to buy the disk for 8.5 as well as 9.0, but they also kinda sorta

Fair Price for 1400 w/ Upgrades?

2002-05-27 Thread Andrew McGinnis
OK, smta.mac.com is braindead and won't send mail to recipients for me. Here it is a 3rd time. I am considering selling my Powerbook 1400. It has the 400MHz Sonnet chip upgrade, 48MB of ram, a 10GB hard drive, 8-bit video out, 10MB ethernet, 56k modem, but it is a passive screen- not active

Re: PDA's Powerbooks?

2002-05-27 Thread Andrew McGinnis
I use a Newton 120 with my pb1400. Hooks up via the serial port. I popped in a 16mb flash card so I could pile all kinds of software and games. It is somewhat limited as compared to say a Newton 130 or 2000/2100, but then again, I don't need a backlight (130) or access to the internet

3400c

2002-05-27 Thread George Mogiljansky
Hello PowerBookists, Finally, I have a shot at a reasonable p-book; it's a 3400c, 180 MHz, 80 MB Ram, CD-Rom and floppy drives, external Zip drive, some SW. Any suggestions - price, parts swaps, upgrades, etc. I don't know how large the HDD is (assume 1.3 G), if there's a modem (probably not;

Re: REA (Repair Extension Authorization)

2002-05-27 Thread Jim
What's Apple's number for this, QUICK! PLASE! TIA! :-) Jim / Taqwa91 -- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 16:45:59 -0700 Subject: Re: 5300cs Problems From: Jeff Hubatka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID:

Re: REA (Repair Extension Authorization)

2002-05-27 Thread Redrockcrab
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