Re: Quicksilver HD backup problem

2011-01-12 Thread Greg Kennedy
Boot the drive from a Linux rescue CD, and use ddrescue to image the drive block-by-block to an external backup drive? You can then mount the image and get your files off it, or run fsck-type filesystem repair utilities on the image. ddrescue is extremely persistent and will retry blocks over

Putting something else in the Airport slot

2011-01-10 Thread Greg Kennedy
Long shot here, but is it possible to stuff a totally different (say, Netgear Wireless G) PCMCIA card into the Airport slot inside the G4 PowerMac? -Greg -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular

Thanks, G-list!

2011-01-10 Thread Greg Kennedy
Thanks to everyone who has helped me with my various questions and issues over the past few weeks. This is the result of all my tinkering: http://nwserver.ath.cx/nwserver/?p=16 -Greg -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-04 Thread Greg Kennedy
Assuming you've already installed the 4.4.8 firmware update? http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1179?viewlocale=en_US It says it offers The Power Mac G4 Firmware Update 4.4.8 improves fan control behavior and reduces high speed fan cycling when running in Mac OS 9. You can apparently also get it

Re: New G4 user - many questions

2011-01-04 Thread Greg Kennedy
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jan 2, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Greg Kennedy wrote: After some more time of thinking about it, I'm considering going with a really crazy solution and using 9.2.3 on the machine + Logic 6.4.3 + Pro Tools Free (if I can find

Re: New G4 user - many questions

2011-01-02 Thread Greg Kennedy
to be purchased (SB Live has OS9 drivers from what I understand, 640mb RAM should be enough too) Does OS 9, or any of the three tools I mentioned, support both processors in the dual 533 G4? If not I'll definitely go Tiger. On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Geke wrote: Hi Greg, I also think 10.4.11

New G4 user - many questions

2011-01-01 Thread Greg Kennedy
Hey all - This is long but I hope you don't mind reading my life story and sharing some insight... I'm a long-time PC user and somewhat familiar with new Macs (have an Intel Mac Mini and the wife uses an Intel Macbook). Someone on my local Freecycle gave away a PowerMac G4 and I managed to

Re: OS X upgrade question

2010-06-24 Thread Greg
On Jun 18, 8:20 pm, Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: I should probably mention that it says on the Software Restore disks that it is compatible with OS 10.1.2 and OS 9.22.  Should that give me problems with 104.11? It won't give any problems. You install 10.4, work up to

Re: Safari 4 trouble

2009-06-10 Thread Greg
Have you tried just hitting the green maximize button at the top left? Greg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus