[CUBE] It arrived! plus please help :)

[Hal]

Have you tried booting from the hard drive with extensions disabled? 
(Holding down the shift key during startup)

See if that at least lets you boot up.

-Hal
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 07:52 PM, mcph at olemiss.edu wrote:

>
>> If you don't care about anything on that drive, just wipe
>> the drive and install your own stuff.
>
> Unfortunately I cant seem to get the dvd drive to accept the
> Jaguar CD (I don't have the original OS 9 CD's,  I ordered
> Jaguar seperately).  It goes in with very little friction
> about 1/2 way then stops.  I have a fear that the dvd drive
> may need replacing *sighs*  or maybe this stupid mac manager
> is disabling it.  If need be I can replace the hard drive.
> If the dvd drive is bad...ugh I dunno how easy that is to
> replace...I suspect not very :(
>
> I also have a friend with a usb cdrw.  Is there anyway to
> bood from such a beast? :)
>
>> You can also try booting with extensions disabled.
>
> How do I do that?  is it a keystroke on bootup?
>
>> If you still can't get the cd drive to work (could be
>> related, I am not sure), use target disk mode from another
>> firewire enabled computer, if you have one, and delete all
>> traces of MacMgr.
>
> Target disk mode?   I have a compaq laptop with winxp and a
> firewire port,  can I use that?  I could also get an ibook
> from work on loan.  What do I need to do to use target disk
> mode?
>
>> Of course, you could also email the guy you bought it from
>> and ask him what the password is (then flog him for not
>> removing it to begin with)
>
> The person indicated at the auction that the machine was
> protected and he didnt recall the password.  I just assumed
> I'd be able to insert the jaguar cd and do a fresh install.
>
> Hopefully I'll be able to get around this thing and use my
> cube for more than a pretty paper weight. :)
>
> Thank you so much for all your help,  I really appreciate
> it!