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Fansom: I also have a Beige G3, mine with a XLR8 G4 ZIF. What are you using to enable your cache? You may have to upgrade it. When I installed 5G24 a while back, I had the same reaction: "well, I guess it's faster..." I ran that way for a while before realizing that my XLR8 Mach Speed Control...

Since I have been earning my daily bread for some five years as a UNIX systems administrator with a penchant for BSD, OSX fits me like an old shoe. It's the mac I love with the tools and plumbing I know and need. But... My question is to the longtime mac users who are scratching their...

Is localhost in your netinfo database? If not, that could certainly be the cause of your problem. Open NetInfo Manager, and click on the machines directory, make sure localhost is listed. Also, check your /etc/hosts file and make sure localhost is in there as well. That's one question. The...

Not to be a killjoy, but... Aren't those a couple of weeks old? I don't get anything, anyway... -alex

I had the same problem a while back. Basically, you need to update Startup Disk in 9.1. You can either d/l it directly from Apple (registration required, the bastards) or try Software Update. Hope this helps! (just to be sure: it's complaining that you have no 9.1 system folder even though...

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Looking over your first post again, something else leaps to mind: Most times I've seen the "classic gray screen that just stays there with a cursor and no blinking "?" or happy mac" it screams "SCSI Problem!!" Check your SCSI bus, then check it again. Even pull all external devices if you...

One possibility is that your system folder has become "unblessed" The (usual) trick to rebless a system folder is to open it, and then close it.... Unfortunately this doesn't work in OSX. When it happened to me, I had to boot off a 9.0 install CD, open and close my system folder, and...

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I'll take a stab at it anyway... I think the problem is that you are giving tar absolute path names rather than relative path names. To wit: Let's say you have a directory: /Users/alex/foo that contains a bunch of stuff you want to archive...