In a message dated 2/18/10 10:25:48 AM, [email protected] writes:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Gene Henley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I was given a G4 Power Mac digital audio. I think about 700 Mhz.I`m new > to Mac. I recognized the click of death in the HD, and replaced it with a > 80 gig. I used the restore disk with the three install disks that came with > it.I replaced the cd drive with a Samsung SH-S214D.So far. So good. The > Samsung does not burn. Burn not supported. Reads DVD and CD fine. I suspect > that I need unsupplied drivers and/or patches from third party.I`m looking > for toast 6 and/or toast on ebay. I don`t want to upgrade to Tiger. Not > Yet.The Mac is not on internet. My idea is to download files to a PC and > transfer appropriate files by flash drive to the Mac. I don`t want to hub the > Mac > or rout it with the PC yet. If I can use the Samsung Lightscribe,I`d like > to do so. > > OK. I`m open :-) PC to Mac! > > > > Gene > > Sounds like you're willing to fiddle, so I think you're off to a good > start! > > Suggestions: > > [1] I would connect it to the Internet as soon as possible. You don't > need to worry about antivirus software or anything - Macs are not > prone to such problems. > > [2] To get your CD drive burning disks, a little program called > Patchburn will probably sort you out. It's free. > > http://www.patchburn.de/ > > Lightscribe, I don't know. I guess you'd need a burning program such as > Toast. > > [3] Tiger: I would recommend this strongly. It is a little bigger and > slower than Panther, but some of the new facilities, such as Exposé > and Dashboard are rather good. Actually, these days, 10.4 is pretty > dated itself and the latest versions of many free programs (e.g. Growl > or VLC) will no longer work on it. However, your machine is below the > spec to officially run Leopard (10.5). You can coax it on with a > program called "LeopardAssist", however. But note, if you do go to > 10.5, tyou will lose the ability to run MacOS 9.x under Classic - this > was removed. > > [4] USB Flash drive - yes, this should work, so long as the drive is > formatted with FAT32. > > I use a free Lightscribe program you can download for !0.4.11 I'ts called SimpleLabler and it's just that, very handy little labeler. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
