I have opened up a p c, but I would think twice before opening any mac. On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote:
> > Drive replacement on the emac is dooable but apple don't want you to > do it. Opening it up is the easy part, but theres quite a lot of stuff > inside it which is in the way of the drive. Your probably not going to > break anything by having a look inside it so theres no harm in giving > it a go. > > On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Wow! Did not know you could replace a drive in an emac. >> Is it hard to open one up? >> On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >> >>> >>> Hey and thanks for the reply. >>> Both machines are tiger machines - I use the emac for audio and not >>> much else so I figgured that i'd opt for a faster os with less >>> features since I wouldn't be using many of the features in leopard - >>> its a g4 1.42. >>> The harddrive is a 80gb soon to be replaced with a nice and fast 250 >>> 7200rpm. >>> >>> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was written >>>> for >>>> the Intel chip set. >>>> Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? >>>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hey all. >>>>> >>>>> I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its >>>>> internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have no >>>>> strange faults that would render the system unusable when it has a >>>>> harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to my >>>>> emac >>>>> and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but i'm >>>>> getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. >>>>> >>>>> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this >>>>> before - >>>>> what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? >>>>> >>>>> Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger >>>>> on it >>>>> but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for reading, BEN. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kind regards, BEN. >>> >>> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >>> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > -- > Kind regards, BEN. > > email: bmustillr...@gmail.com > msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com > web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
