Thanks to everyone who has offered and given help. Now the bad news. I went into the unit and bought the old G4 back home which is how I was able to communicate on the internet yesterday. The new one is still dead. This morning I decided that the fault must have been hardware related through the lead to the hard disk. I was really looking forward to seeing what the 2100 printer would do. plugged it into the old and still working machine, with firewire this time, and the same thing happened again! I have now messed up two machines.
After swearing at two dead machines all day I decided to try one last go at reinstalling on the machine that went down this morning. It worked! So the conclusion is that something is wrong with Epson 2100 software on my setup. I will now try connecting the two machines together as suggested by Jay. If Paul in St Austell wants to look west there just may be a big bang! Thanks Bob Croxford PS You might ask how I got into a mess without some essential work on an external drive? Well OS X has a font called Dingbats which is different to a font which I used also called Dingbats. To enable me to access the font I wanted I had to work in 9.2. To enable me to repeatedly open a Quark file and make multiple changes I moved it onto the desktop. What seems a simple solution ended up making a big problem even bigger. In a message dated 29/12/02 15:07:23, cantv.net writes: << A third partition for documents is the key to an effective back up. I suggest that you start thinking also in another, second internal HD for your machine, since this is the only safe way to be able to always boot it and be able to make repairs when damage arises. >> =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
