On Aug 4, 4:02 am, Mike Linnett <mike.dogho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Howdy all, > > Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger > installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? > > Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running > tiger, and I thought I'd run through onyx's maintenance stuff while I'm here > and it says to boot from the install disk to repair the hard drive, but I'm > sans install disk, but do have my PowerBook with me, which is running > leopard. I figured I'd boot the iMac into target disk mode and repair it from > the PowerBook, but slightly concerned about the different os versions.
On a hunch, I would download the Tiger version of OnyX to the PowerBook and use that to treat the iMac. And I would check to see if there is a difference between OnyX versions for G3/4/5 machines as opposed to Intel machines. Al Poulin -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
