On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Kevin Avery wrote: >> Put the hard drive you want to use into the iMac. Then hold down the T key >> while powering on the iMac. If a yellow firewire icon starts bouncing around >> on a blue screen, you're in business. Connect the iMac to your Power Mac G4 >> with firewire cable, then start up the PowerMac and use its Disk Utility to >> partition t the iMac's hard drive. Once that's done, use the G4's DVD to >> install OS X 10.4 on the iMac. >> >> Again, good luck! >> >> Jim Scott > > Thanks to everyone here, I have a working G3 iMac almost ready to go for my > Mom! I think she will be thrilled. :) > > I did as Jim outlined above. installed the HD in the iMac, connected it to my > G4 Powermac via firewire, started the iMac up in Target Disk Mode, ran the > install DVD from the G4, repartitioned the iMac drive, ran the install, shut > them both down, disconnected the firewire cable, booted up the iMac and all > is good! Now I just need to add some software to it and probably get an > airport card so she can tap into her apartment complex's provided wifi. > > Anyone have any suggestions for free software that a 70ish retired lady would > like? I need to find her a solitaire game for sure, because her last computer > was a Windows box years ago and she played a lot of solitaire on it. :) > > I really appreciate everyone's help! > > Thanks, > Kevin Avery
Excellent! Nothing like good old-fashioned persistence to get something done. I'm a 70ish retired gentleman, and there is a ton of free software out there. My favorite solitaire game, which is about as close to the original Windows 95 etc. Solitaire as you'll find, is Solitaire XL. There's also MacSolitaire and a bunch of others. I also like Mahjongg games, and MyMahjGL is my favorite of those. I also like Double, which is a kind of Mahjongg. Just Google for "download xxxx". You also can do a Google for "free OS X games" to find lots more. One of the best sites for free, shareware and trialware games is the Apple download site: <www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/>. I also recommend Anacron for running cron jobs in the background without fail, and SMARTReporter for a constant check on hard drive health. It also would be good to install AppleJack for those rare occasions when your Mom has a problem and you're not able to be right there. I've talked many a person through running AppleJack over the phone on Macs I've sold or given to them. The Version Tracker web site is good for finding and downloading stuff like that. Whatever you download, make sure it's compatible with OS X 10.4. I've lost a lot of old favorites as my Macs have progressed up the OS X hierarchy to 10.6.2. Did the optical drive in the iMac 600 start working? If it didn't, you might want to find a DVD drive, which also reads CDs. If your Mom ever needs to reinstall OS X 10.4 or boot into the install DVD to fix something, a DVD drive will come in very handy. Glad you got the iMac up and running. Jim Scott -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
