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Oh I see, I'm really with it, just didn't know it...

Yeah, I think that makes sense. This is off the subject a little but, I'm using 10.4.11 now, can anyone give me any reason to upgrade to 10.4.3 or 10.4.4...4...5...6...etc (or to not)? Years ago I used to use FreeBSD, then I went to the dark side for a few years, but since getting the Mac and...

Yeah well, I do want to be all legal like so I'll look for an original 10.4 retail install package off eBay. I had also heard that some hacks were required for Leopard to run as well as it running slow on the lesser G4s, so I'll give it a miss.

I think it's too slow for Leopard, it's a dual 450 Mhz PPC...

Hi there, I have a G4, which I just got, running OSX 10.4 and I need to know if I'm running a legal copy. Does Mac issue anything like the Window$ certificate? Is there any kind of a license certificate or is possession of the original installation disk (which I don't have) all that is...

Okay, thanks for the quick response and info.

Hi everyone, I have to create a boot diskette for an LC475. I have an AGP G4 running OSX X 10.4.11. Can anyone tell me if I can put a USB floppy drive on the G4 and have it work? I need to be able to create a bootable Network Access Diskette so I can get my LC475 running.

Hi all, I have a telescope server, built for G4 OS X 10.43, that needs to be given a dev that is connected to the telescope. The scope is RS232 serial, the Mac is USB. I got a USB to RS232 serial adapter which Tiger recognizes as such. But I need to have a device such as /dev/ttyS0 that I can...

Hi all, I have a 400 Mhz G4 AGP. I recently had someone tell me that I can take a Mac dual 450 Mhz daughter board and plug it into my 400 Mhz AGP mother board and it will work... Is that true? Can I plug in any Mac dual processor (ie, a faster one)? Will the installed OS X 10.4.11 still work?

Hi JRL, The drive mentioned is the floppy disk drive, not an IDE hard disk. But, that's a good idea for testing a hard drive though. Re my LC475 problem: I'm going to get some new, guaranteed error-free diskettes and try the procedure again. In a parallel operation, I'll get an ATX power...

Tried the cable, no difference.

Hi Bunsen, No, I didn't swap the cable, just the fd drive, I'll try the cable now. I will get an atx power supply from somewhere. I've been doing this on my laptop and I don't have a PC or an atx power supply in the house. The beige is going to need some work too, but I'll give it a try...

Hi Benjgvps, I've tried everything, but still no joy. I've unpacked the zip archive and used Transmac to format and copy the image to 8 different diskettes. Sometimes the format fails tho not often, always copying the image to the diskette fails, usually right at the end with 'Error writing to...

I'll get an ATX supply next week and try it... you never know...

Hi all, I've been away and am just getting caught up. Both the LC475 and the G3 are inoperable, the LC you know about and the G3 needs a power supply plus I don't know what else. As soon as I can get a power supply I'l give the G3 a shot but I don't have much hope, I've gathered parts far and...