Mainframeguy
Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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OK anyone that know me will know I am a Mac neophyte. I have no bias either way though and recently I took my daughter back from a sleepover and at her friends house were a Dell XPS 1210 (not bad kit for a ten year old!) and an iMac G4. I was told both were borken. Being hard up and out of work I offered to fix 'em up for a few bob.
The XPS is virtually a done deal with a new HD in place.
The G4 presented other issues - a Tork tool and some fiddling later and it seems to boot fine. I can only access Guest account (could talk to them to get admin, they seemed to suspect viral or porn infection - I'll be surprised, probably just been used by a teenage boy is my guess). It's loaded with Mac OS 9.2 and has no airport or SoDimm (so just the 512MB).
My questions - what is the current and/or best Apple OS to have on this kit?
And then comes the follow up - How would I go about the equivalent of a reformat (I have NO discs)?
Thought I'd ask here before googling - cause you are all such wonderful helpful and knowledgeable folks... :smoker:
The XPS is virtually a done deal with a new HD in place.
The G4 presented other issues - a Tork tool and some fiddling later and it seems to boot fine. I can only access Guest account (could talk to them to get admin, they seemed to suspect viral or porn infection - I'll be surprised, probably just been used by a teenage boy is my guess). It's loaded with Mac OS 9.2 and has no airport or SoDimm (so just the 512MB).
My questions - what is the current and/or best Apple OS to have on this kit?
And then comes the follow up - How would I go about the equivalent of a reformat (I have NO discs)?
Thought I'd ask here before googling - cause you are all such wonderful helpful and knowledgeable folks... :smoker: