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

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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…

The iBook G3 Dual-USB are great machines... if you can find one that doesn't have the dreaded GPU failure. I love my 900MHz iceBook, to be honest. It's really still a fairly capabl…

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 …

The iBook G3 Dual-USB are great machines... if you can find one that doesn't have the dreaded GPU failure. I love my 900MHz iceBook, to be honest. It's really still a fairly capabl…

How do I put my g4 in target disk mode?

To turn Dashboard off: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES To turn Dashboard on: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO You have to…

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…

How do I end dashboard on 10.4?

Technically, Mac OS did not drop support for 400KB disks with Mac OS 7.6.x. With System 7.5.x, a lot of floppy disk handling shifted from the core OS to PC Exchange, or whatever it…

Trying to compile a system compatibility matrix for floppy media. Technically speaking the beige PowerMac G3 series are the only Macs supported by OS X with a built-in Superdrive a…

I run 10.4 on a 800Mhz G3 iBook and it runs fine. No more sluggish than Jaguar and Panther were.

I have no probs with spotlight on a 466, though dashboard definitely needs to be ditched. Tiger should be right snappy on that unit.

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?