On Aug 29, 2005, at 4:21 PM, David Elmo wrote:
Problem was to open the drive tray? The keyboard command only works with a later X installed! Anyway, I did by shutting down, restarting with mouse down and it opened. I put CD for mounting 9.2.2 in. Could not see any way to close tray but to restart and again hold button down.
Just push it in gently. It should 'catch' and slide right in.
Anyway after a lot of messing about, the CD booted but it did not recognise the HD within its installer app, did not appear in the "switch" ing. I tried, just to see whether things could be copied to the HD, perhaps this was unwise, copying the whole folder of the CD into a new "untitled" folder on the HD. Fine! (btw, it was slow, my 7600 and 7300 with ordinary built in SCSI is faster doing such things - I was expecting a 933MHz and the triple size Bus and huge backside cache to prove itself a bit).
Something is definitely rotten in the state of Quicksilver...you're correct it should be really fast.
What I would do is reformat and re-install X. When you reformat (boot from the OS X installer CD, and select Disk utility from the menu under 'Installer') make sure the 'OS 9' drivers are installed.
Thisnis what I'd do with any new system I got, rather than try and make whatever weird hacks the previous owner did work, scrub it clean and start fresh.
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