Daniel Smith
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:15:56 -0800
-Dan On Feb 19, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
another option is to put the install/hardware test cd/dvd in the other computer, then hook it up in target disk mode to the eMac. the eMac should then see the cd/dvd in the boot menu or in finder. i have no idea if this works for the hardware test, but we have done this to install tiger on some older computers without DVD drives at work when all we had was the DVD. of course you are running it all through firewire, so it is slower.-ryan On Feb 19, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Logan Allred wrote:On Feb 19, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Justin Giboney wrote:I have a friend with a 2 year old eMac running 10.3 and it is really bugging out. I have never seen a mac freeze till I saw this one. Saturday I connected my 5 year old iMac to it through firewire and downloaded all the important stuff so that I can reinstall the os. The problem is that one of his kids stuck a magnet in the cd drive (or at least they think he did, they never found it) and the cd drive isn't being recognized. I need another way to reinstall the os. We have an external CD here at work that I might be able to borrow, but is there away to make a disk image a do it that way?IIRC, you can install via firewire target disk mode. So hook up your iMac with Firewire, then boot the eMac in target disk mode and restart your iMac with the install CD/DVD in it. You should be able to select the eMac hard disk as the install target.External CD drives should work if they're bootable, but that may be hit and miss. I haven't used an external CD drive ever, but I think remember some people have trouble with them a long time ago-- I don't know the current status of bootable external optical drives. Are eMac CD drives easily replaceable? You can get a standard CD/DVD drive these days for fairly cheap.Also, how long ago did the magnet possibly get in the eMac? Depending on the strength of the magnet and where the electronics inside the eMac are at, a magnet floating around inside could cause random freezes and data loss. Also, run a hardware test just to make sure there isn't some obvious hardware trouble. I've only had random freezing/crashing problems a very few times, and almost always for me it ended up being bad RAM or a dying hard disk.Logan _______________________________________________ BYUMUG-discuss mailing list BYUMUG-discuss@mac.byu.eduTo unsubscribe, send an email to byumug-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the subjectIRC: #byumug on irc.freenode.net_______________________________________________ BYUMUG-discuss mailing list BYUMUG-discuss@mac.byu.eduTo unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the subjectIRC: #byumug on irc.freenode.net
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