Re: Dual boot possible?

2012-05-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> * Even the ill-fated Apple Network Server featured O.F., although it was a > primitive version of O.F. ANS Open Firmware was actually more advanced than any other beige Mac OF except the G3. Most beige pre-G3 PCI Power Macs used version 1.0.5; the ANS was at 1.1.22, which had a number of bug fix

PPC G5 DP 1.8 minus 1 CPU

2012-05-20 Thread Les
Hi, My PPC G5 dual proc 1.8 Ghz running OS X 10.4.11, is indicating only 1 cpu in activity monitor. The machine is limping along very slowly, do I have any options? Hope I've provided enough details Thanks, Les -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for th

OS 9.2.2 NetBook on a G4 DA

2012-05-20 Thread glen
I have set up a G4 DA 733 MHz, 1.5GB RAM Mac with OS 9.2.2  to run old legacy  PageMaker Files. Some of my clients still need revisions to files that were created 10-15 or more years ago. Rather than convert them to InDesign files I decided this is a better way to go, For some reason a retail

Re: Dual boot possible?

2012-05-20 Thread peterhaas
> I have to say it has been awhile since I have installed linux on that > vintage of a PPC, and I can tell you it is ALOT of work. > First things first: You need to get a copy of BootX: > http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/ > This is the boot loader used for "OldWorld" macs

Re: Dual boot possible?

2012-05-20 Thread Nathan Templeton
Hey Don, I have to say it has been awhile since I have installed linux on that vintage of a PPC, and I can tell you it is ALOT of work. First things first: You need to get a copy of BootX: http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/ This is the boot loader used for "OldWor

Re: User files on second drive

2012-05-20 Thread Chance Reecher
I do not know if it's the same method in Tiger, but in Leopard and on you simply create the user, move their home folder to another drive, and then control-click their username in the Users preference pane to bring up "advanced" where you change the home folder location to wherever you moved it. H

Drive door sticks

2012-05-20 Thread Alex Sciortino
On my powermac g5 the drive sticks in the downward position and doesn't come up. How can I fix this? -- 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 focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac

Re: User files on second drive

2012-05-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 20, 2012, at 8:45 AM, geraldcornish wrote: > I'm sure I've seen an article about this before but cannot find it anywhere. > I seem to recall it is not as simple as placing an alias in the 'Users' > folder so I would like to get the real info before setting up the G4 for use > by my wife.

Re: Dual boot possible?

2012-05-20 Thread Erik Harperink
Op 20 mei 2012, om 17:57 heeft Don Wakefield het volgende geschreven: > I have an older Mac: a PPC 7600 with a Sonnet G4 400 meg upgrade card using > OS 9.1. The question I have is: What procedures and/or additional software > would be necessary to enable a dual boot system which would allow Um

Dual boot possible?

2012-05-20 Thread Don Wakefield
I have an older Mac:  a PPC 7600 with a Sonnet G4 400 meg upgrade card using OS 9.1. The question I have is: What procedures and/or additional software would be necessary to enable a dual boot system which would allow Umbutu of some flavor to be used periodically with my 9.1 when necessary? Idea

User files on second drive

2012-05-20 Thread geraldcornish
Newly acquired Quicksilver (2002) G4 Tiger 4.11, 40GB system drive and 180GB drive added for data files. I would like to have the User files (some 82GB) on the second drive (Data Disk) while starting from the system drive (Mac HD). I'm sure I've seen an article about this before but cannot