Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread peterhaas
> TMI-Sometimes booting 2nd HDs can be problematic on Beige, there is > one ROM version (A) that doesn't support any slave drive booting, > although XPF can boot slave drives on normally early Beige with ROM A > by using a bootable master HD as an XPF Helper Drive. Later ROM B & C > can boot both

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Click
OK, Thanks so much to all for the good ideas. You're a knowledgeable and resourceful bunch! I'll post back with what I decided to do. -- -- 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 M

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 10, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: Since the beige G3 won't boot from FW, then I need to reconsider. You can boot OS X from the FW drive using xPostFacto. I'd install 10.4.11 onto the 73GB partition, and then use XPF 4 (it's carbon and runs in both OS 9 & OS X) from your OS 9

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Connelly
On Feb 10, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Click wrote: > The setup that I tried originally was an 80G drive partitioned into 7G and > 83G on the external FW device. Since the internal ATA drive is only 6G, this > allowed me to backup the internal ATA drive completely to that first > partition. My intent w

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Alex Sciortino
Try a IDE SCSI adapter. I am sure that it is a standard IDE drive in a FireWire to IDE case. -- -- 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.co

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Click
The setup that I tried originally was an 80G drive partitioned into 7G and 83G on the external FW device. Since the internal ATA drive is only 6G, this allowed me to backup the internal ATA drive completely to that first partition. My intent was that I would also be able to use this external 7G

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Connelly
On Feb 10, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Click wrote: > Tnx, Kris. That's what I was beginning to think. Seems a little odd given > the internal ATA drive(s) boot setup. So I need to look for a SCSI interface > external drive. What version of SCSI would work on the beige G3 built-in > port-only v1? Do

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 10, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Click wrote: > Tnx, Kris. That's what I was beginning to think. Seems a little odd given > the internal ATA drive(s) boot setup. So I need to look for a SCSI interface > external drive. What version of SCSI would work on the beige G3 built-in > port-only v1? D

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Click
Tnx, Kris. That's what I was beginning to think. Seems a little odd given the internal ATA drive(s) boot setup. So I need to look for a SCSI interface external drive. What version of SCSI would work on the beige G3 built-in port-only v1? Does it matter what type of drive interface is on the

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 10, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Click wrote: Ideas and suggestions, please Since the Beige G3 didn't come with either built-in Firewire or built- in USB, neither if these are natively bootable, and holding the Option key, or trying to select the HD in Startup Disk won't work. The only nativ

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Click
In my post I mentioned that I tried the "command+option+shift+del key command on startup without result. That's the official command, according to Apple . The same non-response happens with option on startup. I did check to see that it wou

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Alex Sciortino
Try booting while holding option. You should have a boot disk selection thing at that point. -- -- 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.co

Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

2013-02-10 Thread Click
I cannot get my Beige G3 Desktop on System 9.2.2 to boot from my external FW device, even though I set up an initial 7GB OS 9 System Partition using Apple Partition Map. The Drive Setup on my Beige shows the FW device as "unsupported", which I figured was true for the Drive Setup program, not