Thanks for all the helpful hints. Thing that threw me was the same result on both firewire cables, seems they were both old, worn out and defective. A new cable solved the issue.
The kid is reverse engineering his understanding of Mac OS history. He grew up on X and is currently working 9. He's already pulled the old G3 with OS 8.6 out of the garage and fired up the Centris to insure OS 7 was going to be there. Can't wait until he makes me go find the Mac+ and get to explain 6.0.8 and how DA/Font mover and ResEdit were cool back when his dad was still single and on the make and he wasn't even a glimmer on the horizon. Thanks again to the board. PS: Not a good idea to store old cables for long periods in an unheated garage, not even in SoCal. -RF On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Jonas Ulrich <[email protected]>wrote: > You restarted the iBook with cable connected, holding the "T" key down and > nothing shows on the G4, right? Here are some things to check: > > Make sure your firewire cable is good. > Make sure all the computers see the firewire ports under the System > Profiler. > > > -Jonas > > -- > 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 > -- 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
