there is a ppc debian or ubuntu disk if you just want to boot it up.
On 6/24/07, Christopher Welker <[email protected]> wrote:
If the restore disks are handy they will have some hardware tests that you can get to by booting while holding down the option key. If not, which G4 does he have, I may have the hardware tests ISO somewhere that I could upload. On 6/24/07, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have some needle nose pliers that I might borrow today to > fix some bended IDE ribbon pins on a hard drive? > > Gary Chartier (one of the teachers at La Sierra who helped us get the > room we're in) has a sick Mac G4. In trying to hook and unhook things to > diagnose the problem, he inadvertently bent one of the pins. I shouldn't > need it very long, and the hard drive is next door to where we meet in the > School of Business. > > Also, does anyone have any recommendations on PPC-friendly boot disks > that I might use to help diagnose what the main problem is? The computer > isn't booting. > > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > > _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
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