Re: HELP - g5 dual 2.3 multi os install PROBLEM - L O N G

2009-10-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:13 PM, rumble wrote: then it displays a no entry icon (circle with a slash through it). i rechecked the specs on the g5 dual 2.3 and it says it can run panther, and i checked to see if the cd/dvd drive was blessed by apple/ able to boot a system disk. I don't

Re: PPC Geneaology software - what's best?

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Emery
On Sep 30, 1:31 pm, Dan Usmar usma...@gmail.com wrote: I've heard good things about Reunion... Here's another such report, Dan. I've been using Reunion since version 2 when it was based on HyperCard, and now I'm using the latest version 9. To borrow Volvo's catch phrase, Reunion for life!

Re: G4 AGP - whats good replacement

2009-10-01 Thread Richard Gerome
Title: G4 AGP - whats good replacement I have always been one for buying something that I can use my old one for parts!!! This way if you have trouble again with another part you can swap it out, but in your case I would buy a working machine and not another one for parts to fix yours... Use

Re: HELP - g5 dual 2.3 multi os install PROBLEM - L O N G

2009-10-01 Thread rumble
On Oct 1, 3:43 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:13 PM, rumble wrote: then it displays a no entry icon (circle with a slash through it). i rechecked the specs on the g5 dual 2.3 and it says it can run panther, and i checked to see if the cd/dvd drive was

Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-01 Thread Tom
My mother-in-law, an elderly and stubborn lady (though nice) refuses to give up her old 1 GHz iMac (the half-soccer-ball novelty with the little monitor-on-a-stem sticking out of it) even though it dates from the Jurassic Period of computing and we all keep telling her she'd be better off with a

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-01 Thread yersinia
Tom writes, My mother-in-law, an elderly and stubborn lady (though nice) refuses to give up her old 1 GHz iMac (the half-soccer-ball novelty with the little monitor-on-a-stem sticking out of it) even though it dates from the Jurassic Period of computing and we all keep telling her she'd be

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-01 Thread Taner Sezer
hi... you can simply startup with tiger DVD and split your HD into two partitions using disk utility. i'm not sure but i think it could be necessary to book a part that is smaller than 128 gb's for classic. as you partition your HD it no matter which OS you install first... On Oct 1, 2009,

opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-01 Thread Wm. Arnold
Does anyone on this list know how to open a sit.torrent download? I am using an iMac power PC G4 with OSX 10.4.11. Thanks Wm. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-01 Thread McGrude
Does anyone on this list know how to open a sit.torrent download? A .torrent file is a pointer to where within a BitTorrent peer to peer network a BitTorrent client can join the cloud and participate in downloading (and distributing) a given file. You'll need a BitTorrent client to open and

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-01 Thread Tom
Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the 10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am not given any option to install any OS 9 drivers. It just doesn't offer that option. Am I

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-01 Thread yersinia
Tom writes, Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the 10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am not given any option to install any OS 9 drivers. It just doesn't offer that

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-01 Thread Tom
Thanks, Yersinia, but that option, to install the OS 9 drivers, is not offered by the Disk Utility that is on the Tiger Installer. So I dug around in my old disc collection and found a 10.1 installer disk, but discovered on starting up with it that it has no Utilities menu on it at all. It cannot