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.

Thanks for your reply. That's a bit disappointing that the fax function hasn't worked well for you. I have yet to try it out. I answered my CF card question but I have come up wit…

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…

it will take some time until you have conquered the device. Click to expand... I've been learning that, but each time it does something I don't want it to, (I learn) and am ama…

it will take some time until you have conquered the device. Click to expand... I've been learning that, but each time it does something I don't want it to, (I learn) and am ama…

Mail is going rough for me right now. I am getting help from NTLK, and that has been great. I can't say enough good things about Ron Parker and Simon Bell. It does not like Yaho…

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 …

Nvm, talked to derekat(Idk if any of you remember him but he used to post here before the crash) and he said try it without the hard drive, tried that, it worked, tried different j…

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…

How do I end dashboard on 10.4?

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…