>Hi B , >I've a (system message : appearancelib ( approximative translation ) : for >starting , use the disks furnished with your computer ( that's the problem : >1/ >I'd not got any disks hen I bought the 1400 and 2/ It's installed with 8.1 >system. > >Other question :How do you proceed to network the 1400 to a Classic via >the printer port cables ? > >Thanks for all , american friends. thanks , B. >
So- when you boot with the disk tools floppy, the hard drive icon for the 1400 does appear, and there's "stuff" on it (folders and such)? That is a lot easier to fix. In 8.1, there is a control panel called "appearance" that you cannot disable else your computer will, at bootup, give you a message that is something like "Appearancelib cannot be found, reinstall your system software". Even if you have just disabled this control panel by moving it out of the system folder/control panels folder. It sounds like that extension got disabled for some reason (moved out of it's folder). Poor design on Apple's part when they first switched to the centralized "Appearance" control panel. so- first thing is to make sure that control panel is in place. If you don't find it in the "control panels- disabled" folder, do a find file for "appearance" and see if it got moved somewhere else. If it is in place, delete it's preferences from system folder/preferences and try booting again. Easy fix #1 to get the appearance control panel back, put one on a floppy from an 8.1 (it is likely that any 8.x version, maybe even 9.x Mac, will work) and move it over. Easy fix #2: well there's a couple ways but easiest is if the classic mac has a CD and you have access to an 8.x or 9.x CD from the iMac. You could try using the appearance control panel from that CD. ---------- The other question, to hook the 1400 to the classic mac via the printer port: Check out the Appearance control panel thing first, it's really likely the case it has been accidentally disabled. -you need a mac printer cable (one of the USB-to-serial adapter cables for an iMac will NOT work, Appletalk will not cross those adapters) -you need another disk image from Apple (sorry) to make a "network boot floppy". This will boot your 1400 with the needed extensions to use "appletalk" networking protocol. Set Appletalk to use the "printer port" on both the classic mac and the 1400 (booted from the network boot disk) and use the chooser to turn Appletalk "on". The machines should show up in the chooser, when you click the big appletalk icon found in the chooser. Log into one machine from the other (you have to have set up an account with the users/groups control panel) and you are ready to access the CD or 7.5.3 install image or whatever you have loaded onto the Classic, for the 1400 to use. Alternative solution: If you are sure the SCSI disk mode is working, you realize that just turns the 1400 into basically a portable HD that the other mac can access, right? So you could hook the two in the disk mode, open up the 1400's hard drive from the calssic, and try and put the appearance library back where it belongs, or reinstall that way the OS that way, too, without using the (slower) printer cable method. But be careful, you could kill the SCSI controller on one or both macs if you don't really have the right SCSI adapters, whereas the printer cable method is really safe. It's really a lot easier than it is to write and I'll be you have instant success if you can put that darn appearance control panel back in place. Or at least, you will continue booting long enough to get a different error! :) B -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
