Re: Weird System Behavior - G4, System X and 9.x
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:52:44 +0200
In article <0001HW.BF6021EB000C1F031CB0A970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Leo <rarefruit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a G4 with System X and 9.x, and I can only go online
> under 9.x but not System X.
Define "going online". Do you mean just any network connection? If so,
through a direct PPP connection, or via a router? Or are you simply
talking about some specific Webbrowser not doing what you think it
should do?
> Also, my CD drive ejects every disk inserted, after cranking
> and grinding while considering it.
What if you put in a bootable CD and immediately tell the machine to
retstart, then hold the C key to tell it to boot from tyhat CD? If that
works, the CD drive is fine; it's just the system that screws up reading
CDs. If you cannot boot either from a known to be good bootable CD, the
CD drive may be broken. If that's the case, replace it with a new CD
drive. (Or buy an external CD drive, but make sure the vendor guarantees
that it will be bootable.)
> Here's a brief history:
>
> Until a week or so ago both systems would let me go online.
> I had some problems (I forgot what now) so I used various
> disk repair utilities including Disk Utility, Norton Utilities,
Do not ever let Norton anywhere near Mac OS X. It is known to only
create problems. (Btw, Norton is owned by Syjmantec, the company that is
trying hard to scare Mac OS X users into believeing there are viruses
out there.)
> and TechTools.
TechTool is good, but of course you need to make sure the version you
use is safe for the version of the OS that is on the disk...
> The problem of going online started immediately
> after TechTools did its repairs and I couldn't get online in
> either OS 9 or OS X. Finally, I re-installed (Clean install)
> software for it, and that allowed me to go online under
> System 9.x, only.
What do you mean "re-installed software for it"? You reinstalled Mac OS
9? Or only some part?
> I was able to make the installation only because I had saved
> an image of the system installation disk as the drive ejects
> every disk.
Does the drive still refuse every disk when you start up with the clean
installed Mac OS 9?
> Should I try to use an image of System X installation disk
> to renew System X?
AFAIK you can't. The Mac OS X installer requires that you boot the
machine from it. You cannot boot from a disk image.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"
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