On 08/12/05, Peter Udbjørg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True. I have a Christmas vacaition project, then. Disassembling the > beast & cleaning out stuff in it. BTW, it does stay off now, the > second or third time i tell it to do so. > But yes, a disassemble & clean would be smart.
I'm afraid so! > No other peripherals, cards or such stuff. Not even a Zip drive or a floppy? OK, good. If you *do* have these or anything else, try temporarily disconnecting them while installing, then reconnecting them afterwards if successful. > OK. Will re-format drives according to your suggestion & re-try. Good luck! > And: 10.2 didn't work. Tried booting from it, then Xpostfacto somehow > toook over and it booted in OS9 (on its own disk). Somehow XPF > changed things, so it wouldn't boot in 10.1 anymore, so I had to > reinstall that. That sounds /very/ odd. A wipe, repartition & reformat should cure that. But in any case, if it won't boot natively, there's no harm in trying XPF in any case. Sometimes it can help with installing even a supported OS. E.g. I was trying to get Tiger onto a B&W recently, for an ex-girlfriend. The machine has onboard Firewire so it /should/ work - but it didn't. I think B&Ws can't boot off Firewire devices, such as the Firewire DVD burner I was using. So i used XPF instead. It ran perfectly. Once installed, I could discard XPF and just use the normal method to switch between OS9 & OS X ([System Preferences|Control Panel] -> Startup Disk). > But Bruce says 10.2 is supported? Well, ok. First hardware-cleaning, > then software. Again, /lycka til!/ -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 · Mob: +44 7939-087884 · Fax: +44 870 1271528 AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 Gmail/Google Talk/Orkut: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
