Recent content by mstobbs

Well I'm going to (naively)hope that it is a backup of the original, but I still don't have the original, so it doesn't matter. Disappointing since I payed good money with the hopes of a fully legal clean system. I guess I'll keep my eyes open for good deal on some software and until then...

Sorry for the late response. So I received a burnt DVD-R with 10.5, which I am to understand was the disk used to install it initially :-(, it took about 40 minutes to get to the install menu, then I got an error of some sort and I bailed on it, had the (scratched)disk re-surfaced and have yet...

ok, thanks for the replies. Satcomer, yes, I read the article you linked to me and I'm not sure it is exactly what I'm trying to do. Thank you though. Diablo, here's my position. I bought this iBook of ebay with 10.5 installed, no disks though. So if I were to make a "non-destructive...

Thanks for the very helpful reply ElDiablo, I do love to tinker(sometimes a little too much). I have a follow up question, "partition in the safest method, you will have to completely erase your hard drive-- that means backing everything up first to another drive, partitioning your internal...

Hello, I just bought an iBook G4 and this is the first time I've had a hard drive large enough to partition. I have a 150GB hard drive with one partition and I would like to create a new partition to put all of my music/movies in. I was wondering if this had any side effects (slower loading...

Hi, I was hoping a brilliant mind on this message board would be able to help a noob like myslef network some g3's. I have a PowerBook prismo running tiger and an iMac 333mhz running panther that I would like to share files via Ethernet. I've played with network settings, but have not had any...