OSX Boot CD for a 7300! |
August, 27, 2003 12:01 AM |
johnbclark |
I may have missed someone else doing this a while ago, but I had to share my good fortune. Just for the fun of it, I used boot CD to create a "supposedly" bootable disk image. I added Disk Warrior to it, and I honestly couldn't think of anything else (Norton - Nah!). I couldn't use Disk Copy (it decided that my USB CDRW was not supported - the burner is a bit of a bastard child that also shouldn't work, but does... see "Is it the burner" a few posts ago) so, against recommendation I used the burn disc image option in Toast Tiatanium 5.2.1 (which also shouldn't work). Again, just for the fun of it, I chose the burned CD as startup in System Prefs. and restarted. IT WORKED!! (albeit slowly, but really not all that bad) I now have a nicely repaired SCSI HD (IBM on the stock bus) and a nicely optimized directory. Plus, I seem to have a OSX 10.2.6 emergency boot disk that will work in an unsupported old world machine. Sorry if this is old news to some - I had the idea that this was not possible and would not work, so I had to see for myself. Next stop (hopefully in a few weeks) Panther??? 7300/200 with Daystar (XLR8) G4/350, 288MB interleaved RAM, Radeon 7000 PCI Hope that this helps somebody! |
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RE: OSX Boot CD for a 7300! |
August, 29, 2003 4:47 PM |
jseibyl |
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"Yeah, and when or if it fails you can always have a reduced size coffee table! " Absolutely-it is supposed to be a fresh refurb, so I remain hopeful! My fiancee doesn't have the same taste in furniture as I do, but she has given me the "computer room", so I can engage in my arcane experiments unencombered. But in return, my boxes of oddball parts are in the closet including a macII+ that still works, so I WILL NOT get rid of that! I have used Boot CD, works as you describe. Networking is INDEED a dream, I plugged in a dell laptop with a crossover into my fiancess beige g3 (used to be mine, until the g4 8oo PCI came out for the 9500...)her machine is now a g4 500 with 10.2.6. Fired right up AND was sharing the internet through the external serial modem, blew me away, too damn easy. |
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RE: OSX Boot CD for a 7300! |
August, 27, 2003 1:47 PM |
johnbclark |
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Also BTW - was it not supposed to be possible to create a boot CD this easily? I wondered about the XPF factor involved. Or, is it just my ignorance of the impossible that made it possible? I have vague memories of folks saying that it could not be done without a ton of work, and even then not at all. With "BootCD" it was fully automated, and it works just like a regular OSX system. |
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RE: OSX Boot CD for a 7300! |
August, 27, 2003 1:42 PM |
johnbclark |
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Yeah, and when or if it fails you can always have a reduced size coffee table! That burner that I was talking about before - I pulled the HP from my friend's PC and simply swapped it out of the LaCie case - it seems to work fine. Oddly though, it isn't supported by Disk Copy or seen in ASP. I haven't tried iTunes yet - since I had only had a burner that made coasters, I only had coasters (gotta get to the store and pick up some new CDR's). The sad part is, I still have the old unit... It is in a drawer with two old Seagate 1GB drives that have failed, a "spare" mouse, an old 4x original CD ROM from my 4400, and the original 604 card from the 7300. I suppose that I could plug the bad burner into the IDE cable on the 4400 and be certain that it is dead, but it is really tough to throw this stuff out. I even have the packing braces that the new drive came in, as well as the box from the Radeon. I need to just realize that these will likely never come back to life, so I shouldn't save them "just in case". Although, the day that I do, I bet something will break :( I WILL save the 604 card - that is a given. Maybe I'll take the old drives apart, just for fun... then they will be so unusable that I have to break down and toss them... BTW, the whole experience with my friends iMac has taught me just how easy it is to network a PC with an OSX mac. A click for sharing, a crossover cable (that was the first mistake; use the -right- CAT 5), a "go -> connect with server, and voila! - a C drive on the desktop! Maybe I'll ask Danielle to let me keep the burner as "payment" - I have sudden car repair costs on my fiance's car that will put the Mercury on hold for a while :( |
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RE: OSX Boot CD for a 7300! |
August, 27, 2003 11:20 AM |
jseibyl |
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I had some fun recently.....I got a 47 gig(formatted 60 gig unformatted) FULL size FULL height Seagate 68 pin scsi brick for 25 bucks......... I get the thing, and was afraid to even attempt to put it inside, as god knows what the power consumption of this thing would do to my 9500, much less the fact it wouldn't fit in anyway....... Okay so I pull apart an old normal size encolsure I have lying around and get the connectors attached and plug it in and just set my brink in the enclosure without the top to see if it will spin up....fired up the first time in X. A little CCcloner and XPF extensions later, and I have a fully bootin backup of jag! The best part is that I can plug this thing into other machines! I didn't like the fact that it was running bare, so back to EBay, and I get an eclosure for another 25 bucks. I had to bypass the connectors for some reason, the drive didn't work, but as soon as I put the other connector in, it was fine. Probally should have known their would be issues....the manufacturer for the encolsure is... Compaq. Oh well, at least my bigass brick is protected and cooled. I love this stuff! These machines are NOT supposed to do any of this! |
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RE: OSX Boot CD for a 7300! |
August, 27, 2003 5:52 AM |
jseibyl |
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Nicely done! |
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