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From: Gary D. Adams
Reply To: PowerBooks
Sent: Saturday, June 8, 2002 10:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OS9 on a PB 3400
Tom:
I've got the Lucent connecting to my Airport 2 Base Station. The reason I went with
the more-expensive alternative is that the ABS will do Appletalkmy Pismo and my son's
dual-USB iBook have Airport cards. I've heard/read reports that SMC's wireless will
also do Appletalk, but I have
SO what is the biggest improvement of OS9 on a PB3400 over OS8.6?
I am happily running 8.6 but am always tempted by the call of 9
but never sure that it is worth giving up that extra RAM
Can those of you having made the upgrade of OS tell me benifits
Cheerz
Jo0lz
Why not just put 9.1 on a
Thanks for all the advice
I guess I'll have to look out for an OS9.1CD
on Ebay that's available to me here in the UK
Jo0lz
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H - Oxfordshire, UK
PB - 3400/200 2Gb/144Mb OS8.6
Stability. And that is really worth it.
SO what is the biggest improvement of OS9 on a PB3400 over OS8.6?
I am happily running 8.6 but am always tempted by the call of 9
but never sure that it is worth giving up that extra RAM
Can those of you having made the upgrade of OS tell me benifits
Cheerz
Jo0lz
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Hi Gary,
Please give (us) me all the HW details.
Thx
George
--- Gary D. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Biggest improvement? TCP/IP file sharing?
I've got 9 on my 3400 (144mb RAM, wireless ethernet
via Lucent Silver).
It's nice. Runs solid.
I like it.
Gary
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George:
Not much more to say. I bought the machine on Ebay and when it arrive,
it had 8.6 installed. It acted really quirky, freezing periodically for no
apparent reason. I finally nailed it down to a bad RAM module (32mb),
which Techworks replaced for free. At the time, RAM had dropped; so
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wrote:
I set the PB to never
sleep and changed the extension settings and
booted
from the CD with no
problems but when I launch the Mac OS
Installation
application it starts
and then goes to a this software cannot be
installed on your
I think it's probably a machine gestatlt ID problem. The installer looks
for the iMac and doesn't find it.
I've got an original generic OS 9 CD I bought at CompUSA and it installed
fine on my PB3400.
G
Sionnach Aisling wrote:
--- hope and the anchor
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I set the
Bondi iMac (now
running 8.6) to install 8.0 on my PB 5300cs. But I couldn't use the included 8.1
updater to go from 8.0 to 8.1 - I had to download the 8.1 updater directly from Apple.
Good luck.
Regards,
Bob Eye
Dallas, TX
From: hope and the anchor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OS9 on a PB 3400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ordered a full copy of OS 9 but was just today
loaned a copy of the
restore software (including the OS 9.0.4 disk) that
came with a friend's
iMac. Is this installable on my PB?
Take a look at whats on the CD... If it's restore
software, there should be an image
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Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: OS9 on a PB 3400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ordered a full copy of OS 9 but was just today
loaned a copy of the
restore software (including the OS 9.0.4 disk) that
came with a friend's
iMac
My two cents:
Copy the installer onto the HDD, or
start up with the CD while pressing C or Option + C.
There are other ways, but try these first.
Just got my first pb last weekend.
Cheers
George
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wrote:
thanks for your reply! there's a two CDs: one
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