Recent content by granas

Thanks for your "human" answer nfxmedia, I tried a Tiger install disk last night, as to be expected it complains and wouldn't install, but it will let me use the Disk Utility - which when run, complains of orphaned files and cannot continue with the repair. I have absolutely no idea how this...

S/H abbreviation for Second Hand. I have a Powermac G4 533 DA system running OSX 10.2 - and as in my previous post, because it is "Second Hand" I do not have any system discs. As for your slightly pedantic comment: "As far as '(I know this will not install on my system)', and not knowing your...

Hi guy's, back again. Having played around with my newly aquired G4 for the last week, I seem to have "done" something that is stopping OSX from starting up. All I'm getting is the flashing question mark folder. I have tried the usual FSCK thing - which irrespective of how many passes I perform...

Thanks for all the replies guys, I wanted to know wether OSX relied on the OS9 system folder for it's backwards compatibility, and you've answered - it does. That at least removes any doubt from my mind of "sloppy" housekeeping by my macs' previous owner. OS9 can stay exactly where it is then...

Looking in preferences, I have the option of 2 "system discs" OSX and OS9 - although the only partitions on the system are the "system" partition itself and a completely virgin partition (the rest of the drive) - It isn't actually a space issue really, still in excess of 20Gb on the drive - but...

Hello to everyone, it's nice to find a little corner of the net so enthusiastically populated by mac fans. I'm new, as you probably already realised, and I have only just returned to the mac "fold" after an absence since OS8.6 on an Imac. An here lies the nature of my question - I recently...