On 6/20/2002 6:49 PM, "Ann Richmond" <richmond at qx.net> wrote:
> > > Ward Oldham wrote: >> Hi Ann, >> >> Well, lets start last paragraph first. Maybe someone else can shed some >> light on these new errors but I would be intent on getting past the old >> errors first. Without knowing anything about your generation of iMac, please >> make sure you are starting this Mac up in OS 9. > > The IMac is running OS 9. The 9600, OS9.1. >> >> >> Second, you may also want to try and reboot your iMac with bootable CD in the >> drive while holding down the OPTION key. Expect to see a subsequent screen >> that will picture every device you ought to be able to boot from. Select >> your CD and click the arrow key. If you get this far, its recognizing the >> CD-ROM drive though it?s no guarantee that it?s working. Before attempting >> this, you may want to visually inspect the CD to make sure it?s blemish and >> smear free. You may want to try a second bootable CD too. Now if this fails >> again, I?ll quit beating this dead horse! > > I tried rebooting with the option key held down from the OS 9 cd and also from > a 7.6 cd. Neither got any result. The Imac started up with the system on the > hard drive. I think maybe I have a dead horse? >> >> >> Lastly, being able to select your iMac in the chooser on the 9600 but yet >> having no subsequent volume choices to select tells me that you have File >> Sharing on (on the iMac) but have yet to tell it what you want shared. Try >> selecting your hard disk icon and then go to File Menu>Get Info>Sharing. > > Success with the file menu/get info/sharing path to make the hard drive on the > IMac accessible from the 9600. THANKS. That will make me much happier on lots > of fronts. I then copied the Epson installer file from the cd on the 9600 onto > the IMac hard drive. Then tried to run it on the IMac. No luck. STill the > "#baReadIni" error message. There must be some reason this thing has to run > from a directly connected cd? > >> >> >> Let me know if you have any luck. >> >> Ward Oldham > > Thanks, > Ann > Hi Ann, Any way you could download the installer off the web per the links previously emailed to you and run these on the iMac? Ward Oldham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020620/85c79936/attachment.html
