According to pictures of the IIgs innards I found on the net, stock IIgs didn't have a fan, right? Click to expand... Right. You can safely remove it if you don't have any unn…

Ok, it's time for some feed-back! I finally went further with cleaning those drives, since I recently got a nice Apple ][ Europlus and I needed the IIgs to be working in order to …

Status report: Made some changes to the G3's config file in regards to the modem port. In the GS, I used the monitor to do a 2 (Control-K) Return. Also tried PR#2. Both seem to ge…

Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini Click to expand... I read that this morning, but had doubts about it, because the guy used a Mac mini without serial ports, whereas I …

Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini

It's marvellous what this new fangled google thing will do... http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/2758-using-getty-serial-port-consoles.html

Some you might remember the desktop G3 I got awhile ago. Here's the setup: 1.) Desktop G3 with OS 10.2 and the usual printer/modem serial ports 2.) An Apple IIgs with the same se…

would u consider setting it up so we can dial in to it with telnet for the purpose of software development?

I got one of my friends to tell me how he did it with his G4 iBook. He had to boot into Open Firmware and run a command to do it, but it (USB DVD-ROM) worked.

Everything I've read says they wont. Only the intel ones. I'll just snag a firewire cable this weekend and try disk mode on my G3 if I can get THAT to boot OSX......

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

Not sure you got an answer to your question, so here's my shot at it: In addition to 120MB superfloppies, those drives will also read 1.44MB disks. Sadly, 800K (or 720K) disks are …

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…

AFAIK, they were SuperDisk drives - the 120MB floptical things - and wouldn't read the 800/720k disks.

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…