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…

did you run a hardware test? i wouldn't be too worried about no chiming. my sawtooth g4 has been doing that for a long time with no ill side effects. Click to expand... My dua…

you will need the cd rom drive for the hardware test. does anything come up on the screen when you turn it on?

@nlp: I already know SoftPC (also the (AFAIK latest) Version: SoftPC 3.1 professional), I tested and compared it carefully to SoftWindows-1-68k a while ago. SoftWindows is definit…

Thankyou for your responses. If it's not booting without a chime (assuming speakers etc are working), it indicates it's failing its startup RAM test. I've a Powerbook 12" 8…

@Travis Hunt: As already mentioned, I'm not sure if this necessarily means something. Probably SoftWindows-1-68k also wasn't mentioned in the docs of SoftWindows-1-PPC Click to …

in version 1.01 of softwindows i found the following version history: "SoftWindows, Version History [...] Version 1.0 This was the initial version of SoftWindows for the Power…

@Travis Hunt: As already mentioned, I'm not sure if this necessarily means something (see my web.archive-links). Probably SoftWindows-1-68k also wasn't mentioned in the docs of So…

LOL, yeah, I see what you mean. How's this?

Hopefully that makes it a little clearer. Click to expand... Search/google THEN ask DrBunsen.

did you run a hardware test? i wouldn't be too worried about no chiming. my sawtooth g4 has been doing that for a long time with no ill side effects. Click to expand... My dua…

I have a complete copy of SoftWindows 2.0. I don't believe a 68k version was produced. Neither the manual/documentation, nor the sales literature displaying the entire Insignia o…

@Grex: I've edited my sig file to take out the blank line. Hopefully that makes it a little clearer.

@nlp: Thanks for trying!

i have installed it, installation with the pre defined partition size takes only about 39.6 MB. but no luck, it doesn't run on 68k.

@nlp: Thanks for searching and testing it for me! German is not a problem for me, as it is my mother tongue (I couldn't find any german 68k-Mac-Forums on the web). I am not sure …

i have found softwindows2 on a 12-year-old cd, and the cd is still readable. but: the installation is in german. if you can't find an english installer, you can use this one. UP…

If it's not booting without a chime (assuming speakers etc are working), it indicates it's failing its startup RAM test. I've a Powerbook 12" 867 which unusually has a failed onbo…

I'll PM you if I find it.

Thankyou for your response! Would I be needing my hardware test CD-Rom for this, or can it be done with regular MacOSX utilities?

Grex, that's just part of Bunsen's signature - it appears in every single one of his posts, so I wouldn't take it too seriously. I was actually thinking the same as Bunsen, it look…

@Bunsen: Sorry, but that's NOT very helpful. Of course I searched the forum before posting, as any decent forum-user would. And naming some internetsites is also quite useless, co…

Stick it in ebay saved searches, with email notification set for the next 12 months. That's how I've managed to find a lot of my rarer acquisitions.