[Cube] Total Cube Newbie!

[Jason Myers]

You lucky bastard...

On 12/22/06, Andrew Strouse <kittstr at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi all.  I found a mac g4 cube sitting by the side of the road (in the
> trash).  I have been out of the "mac loop" for 10-15 years (my last mac was
> a mac classic) but it looked so pathetic sitting there so I picked it up.
> When I got it home I plugged my usb keyboard and usb mouse in and my vga
> display.  Then I touched the power button and the little bugger roared to
> life.  Then it just sat there with a big gray apple on a white screen with a
> little swirling pinwheel thing.  When I googled this, it said to reboot with
> command-v to get to the boot messages and it stops dead after it says:
>
> /etc/rc: line 283:  147 Hangup        SystemStarter -gr ${VerboseFlag}
> ${SafeBoot}
>
> So, my question is what does this mean and how can I fix it?  I don't have
> any disks or manuals, etc.  Should I go out and buy OS X and reinstall?  Is
> there something simple I can try first?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
>
> Andrew Strouse
> ( kittstr at kittstr.com )
>
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