[G4] Wanted - MDD FW 400 system install disks

[John Baltutis]

On 03/03/08, Paul <ppd at spin.net.au> wrote:
>
> Ronald,
>
> thanks for your post / email.
>
> I acquired this computer last week - as you can imagine, this means it
> already had the previous owners stuff on the drive. I certainly did NOT
> do a full reformat that takes several hours - rather I did one of the
> quick erases that takes a few seconds and then installed my version
> 10.2. But I can assure you, I definitely checked the install OS 9
> drivers box. I have installed various flavours of 10.2 / 10.3 on that
> many computers, that it has become second nature to check this box.
>
> I will try your solution and see how I go. Although Iím not too
> thrilled about re formatting a 120GB drive - you might hear from me in
> 2010.

Reformatting and repartitioning take about a minute or two IF you don't use any
of the available security options which writes zeros and ones to the disk.
Additionally, you should be able to get replacement disk through Apple;
although, since you're in Aussie land, that might be a bit of a hassle.