Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-03 Thread Andrew Kershaw
BTW, I'm curious why Lombards would be considered OT for this list. It's a PowerBook. From Low End Mac's PowerBooks email list page: PowerBooks is a forum for users of the original Mac Portable and all pre-G3 PowerBooks (including pre-G3 models with G3 upgrades). For owners of iBooks, G3

Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-02 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 12/2/02 12:31 PM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, the biggest speed enhancement you'll get is by upgrading the RAM. 64MB is _BARELY_ enough to run OS 9. 9.2.2 on my Wallstreet takes 60-70MB. And PC133 SODIMMs are dirt cheap (they work all the way back to the

Limping Lombard

2002-12-01 Thread J. Shea
I bought a Lombard from one of the LEM Swap listers, and although it works, it is painfully slow. It has 64 MG RAM, running 9.2.2. I decided to run TechTool Pro on it and booted from my TechTool CD, which took forever. When it finally booted, TechTool could not see the internal hard drive. I

OT! Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew Kershaw
This belongs on the G-Books list. This isn't even one off... You'll get better responses from them anyway, considering they actually own and talk about Lombards over there. Not everyone on this list has a G3/G4 based PowerBook... Your book shouldn't need a system enabler, especially under

Re: OT! Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-01 Thread J. Shea
This belongs on the G-Books list. This isn't even one off... You'll get better responses from them anyway, considering they actually own and talk about Lombards over there. Not everyone on this list has a G3/G4 based PowerBook... Sorry for the off topic post. I didn't mean to annoy

Re: OT! Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-01 Thread Brian
I wanted to do a clean install, but when I boot from the OS CD, the internal HD is not visible, so it is not possible for me to install anything. It is possible (probable?) that the drive is formatted with HFS+ and you booted with a TechTools CD that is too old to be able to read an HFS+

Re: OT! Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-01 Thread KADaggett
My Reply follows quote. On 01/12/2002 15:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Kershaw) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This belongs on the G-Books list. This isn't even one off... You'll get better responses from them

Re: OT! Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew Kershaw
I must be dense today. Where does one find/subscribe to the G-Books list? Ken mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] will get you on the list. This is, of course, another of the fabulous LEM lists. All of Dan's lists can be found here: http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/index.shtml Read about G-Books here:

Re: Limping Lombard

2002-12-01 Thread Illovox Media
on 12/1/02 1:39 PM, J. Shea at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a Lombard from one of the LEM Swap listers, and although it works, it is painfully slow. It has 64 MG RAM, running 9.2.2. I decided to run TechTool Pro on it and booted from my TechTool CD, which took forever. When it finally