I do love this Mac. I plugged in a new printer and it worked without installing drivers. I installed a new hard drive, partitioned it with Disk Utility and it worked. I didn't have to mess with jumpers, or reading the installation book written for Windows.
I solved my problem. No further reading necessary unless interested. The problem was I had locked up my machine. It was not progressing beyond a System 9 "happy face Mac." (I had just completed my corporation and personal tax information for my CPA. It wasn't backed up, but it was on paper.) I solved it with brute force instead of finesse. I installed another hard drive and placed it in the "master drive" position. I installed OS X on it. My locked up drive went in the "slave" position. When the computer booted, it used the "master" drive OS. The "slave" drive is as usable as it was before my shenanigans. As an after though, I probably could have used the "Archive and Install" option on the installation disk. On 1/30/03 6:18 PM, "Allan Atherton" <aatherton at insightbb.com> wrote: > Ronald Broadwater <rbroadw at bellsouth.net> wrote: >> I have a Dual G4... Norton SystemWorks doesn't recognize my hard drive. >> Apple's Disk Utility does. The solution is to return the start up System to >> OS >> X and dump system 9.1. The hard drive originally had Jaguar and OS 9.2. I >> dragged OS 9.1 from another computer on to the same hard drive and selected >> it >> as my start up system. The result is a computer that boots with a computer >> happy face, but later changes into a broken folder. > > We might need to understand better what happened. > > It sounds like you have a partitioned drive with OS9 on its own partition, > to be able to start up with it, and two computers networked together. > I had no partitions. I had 3 systems on the drive at once. I selected OS 9.1 to be the start up system. > As I understand it, when Norton did not see the drive, you dragged the OS9.2 > System Folder to the Trash and emptied it, and then dragged an OS9.1 System > Folder from the other computer to replace it. Then you used a Startup panel > somewhere to select that OS9.1 for startup. But it won't start, though can > still start from OSX. > Nothing would start. > Is all that correct? > > Allan Atherton > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
