![]() Now I have grown horribly tired of using a Command-Line only environment on it, and would like to pass it on to my daughter as my grandfather did to me. So I made a live USB of PowerPC Ubuntu and booted that, wiped the HDD and installed Ubuntu. When I did this it corrupted the boot sector of the HDD leaving it unable to boot OS X, however the HDD could be read fine from a live USB. This is where the real trouble comes in: One day while trying to upgrade from OS X 10.2.8 to 10.3 using the CD-R drive (before I had realized it didn't initialize boot discs) I had to hard boot the machine to shut it off. Given that it has a USB 1.1 port and my USB 2.0/3.0 flash disks are backwards compatible. ![]() ![]() Not to mention it has to be held shut with electrical tape because the locking mechanism has been broken for about five or six years. The drive is not "broken" per-say, however it usually takes up to an hour to initialize a CD-R, 20+ min to read a single sector, and NEVER recognizes any kind of bootable disc. The machine in question is an iBook G3 Clamshell (233MHz, 256MB SRAM, 16MB VRAM, 1xUSB 1.1 edition, 1997) with "New World" Open Firmware v4.1.7f (the latest version for that model.) The problem is that the CD-R drive has not functioned for about a decade. ![]() It would seem I am in a minor predicament with one of my older Macs.
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