Plenty of G4s will boot from USB, although none of the Power Macs will IIRC. It's worth a shot on the mini.

I got my adapter today and popped the 80 GB drive into my G3. After a little playing around with the Silverlining software, I can access *ALL* of the files on my disk! Copying them…

Well the mini takes a laptop optical drive so in theory you could use some random ibook/powerbook drive if you want.

I've got firewire in my B&W G3 but it doesn't run OSX.

You have no other firewire mac's to boot from? I once restored an OS X disk to another mac's drive and told the target mac to boot from that. Can you say über fast install?

Yep I see that now. Sweet. I've always wanted a paperweight.

PowerPC doesn't boot from USB. Firewire only son.

I've concluded the cd drive is broken. Gonna see if I can format a usb drive to boot the osx installer.

Right, I forgot about that. Keep in mind that it will take ALOT longer then normal permissions repair.

the no smoking sign means OS X needs to be reinstalled because some file has broke. As for the G4. Put that into target disk mode and erase the hard drive(of course taking your fil…

I'll try that when I get home. Getting to the grey screen with the blinking "?" though should get me going but maybe my install media is actually messed... I'll be trying a DVD ver…

Does holding down option/alt at boot give you the Apple boot disk selector screen? If so, does the OS X CD show up there?

Some progress.... Booted back into linux and ran my favorite command "shred /dev/hda" so now the hard drive is completely blank. Boots to a grey screen with a blinking question mar…

So I'm wanting to go back to OSX from linux on my G4 Mini but it refuses to accept boot media. I'm attempting to use a 10.4 CD (verified, should work) but despite using the "C" key…

How do I put my g4 in target disk mode? Click to expand... at boot up press and hold the T key until you see the firewire logo move around like a screen saver. You now have a $…

Press Command-V as soon as you turn on the Mac. That's verbose mode and will let you see what messages are appearing on the UNIX side of things, messages which could help diagnose …

How do I put my g4 in target disk mode?

the no smoking sign means OS X needs to be reinstalled because some file has broke. As for the G4. Put that into target disk mode and erase the hard drive(of course taking your fi…

Well my G4 is booting into some strange command prompt and I have no idea why or how to fix it. When I try to boot from a cd it just has the little spining circle thing under the a…

What exactly does that 80/40 key do? Click to expand... According to wikipedia "an “80/40”-column switch for (specially-written) software to detect which text video mode to sta…

The more I use my Apple IIc, the better I get at programming it. But there's one thing that I still don't understand. I still haven't figured out what the 80/40 key does. I know…

The graphics make use of programmable character sets - so the creatures are built up of a matrix of characters (maybe 2x4 or 3x6 - I'm not sure now). The screen is 40 columns, and…

The graphics make use of programmable character sets - so the creatures are built up of a matrix of characters (maybe 2x4 or 3x6 - I'm not sure now). The screen is 40 columns, and…

Yep, with a flash of inspiration, I found it via... google! I've been able to play it, but loading it on and running it from my Compact Flash faux-Profile (via BOS) ends up with a…

I have a real Apple III. Where did you find the software? Can I download it from somewhere? Click to expand... There seems to be a disk image of it located at: http://adtpro…