[doucy2]

Well right now my dvd drive on my ti powerbook 400mhz died on me and the laptop has no OS i need to get one installed so i can use it
i have a external firewire cdrw drive

my question is how can i boot my panther cd from that??

any help is greatly appreciated

cheers

[romeosc]

Originally Posted by doucy2

Well right now my dvd drive on my ti powerbook 400mhz died on me and the laptop has no OS i need to get one installed so i can use it
i have a external firewire cdrw drive

my question is how can i boot my panther cd from that??

any help is greatly appreciated

cheers

Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD).... CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE

[doucy2]

hmm now the extrnal drive doesnt want to get power to itself
any suguestions?

[Tuoder]

Originally Posted by doucy2

hmm now the extrnal drive doesnt want to get power to itself
any suguestions?

I am not trying to be condescending, as I am reasonably sure that I have made all of the following mistakes before. Is the drive plugged in? Is the cord/AC adapter good? Is the outlet good? Is there an on/off switch that has been set to off?

[doucy2]

no on off switch
power adapter wors with it and it works off the firewires power too

[Tuoder]

Originally Posted by doucy2

no on off switch
power adapter wors with it and it works off the firewires power too

then have you tried testing the outlet with another port? If that aint it, then I'd say its toast.