On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:13, Al Poulin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Aug 4, 4:02 am, Mike Linnett <[email protected]> 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 > > Ahh well, I repaired the disk (twice, to be sure) from leopard, re-ran the tests and stuff and it all seems to be ok. From what I can see there's different versions of onyx based on which version of osx you're running, but that's about it. -- 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
