I'm having a problem with my Powerbook. I was upgrading my Mac OS 9 to 9.2 when it froze because of Norton Antivirus. Now when I boot up it shows a folder with the Mac computer on it and a ?. I imagine I F*d up my install somehow. Now, this powerbook doesn't have a CDROM drive. Is there anyway to install off of a network? I have read you can if you have an Apple Server.. don't have one of those. I also read that a Firewire CDROM drive is bootable, but a USB one isn't. Any ideas??
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symphonix
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Your system is probably still in there, though the system folder is no longer "blessed" (do a hunt on bless here and you'll see what I mean. Basically, Bless tells the system which folders it can boot from)
You should find that if you reinstall you will probably still have all your files and settings.
And in the 9.2 upgrade readme there is a big warning to TURN OFF NORTON ANTIVIRUS, so yes, that would be the problem.
My suggestion is that you find someone who can loan you a firewire drive (hard drive or CD drive, doesn't matter), load it up with the system software, and plug it in. Alternatively, you may want to look at "Target Disk Mode" ... another firewire trick that would allow you to use another Mac for booting, thus allowing you to get the system.
You should find that if you reinstall you will probably still have all your files and settings.
And in the 9.2 upgrade readme there is a big warning to TURN OFF NORTON ANTIVIRUS, so yes, that would be the problem.
My suggestion is that you find someone who can loan you a firewire drive (hard drive or CD drive, doesn't matter), load it up with the system software, and plug it in. Alternatively, you may want to look at "Target Disk Mode" ... another firewire trick that would allow you to use another Mac for booting, thus allowing you to get the system.
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