[iBook] external firewire CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive

[Janice F. Jorgensen]

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Janice F. Jorgensen
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> From: "Mary H." <maryh at brucetelecom.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers."
> <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:43:08 -0400
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers."
> <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [iBook] external firewire CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
> 
> At 2:18 PM -0400 7/30/07, Janice F. Jorgensen wrote:
> 
>> Got firmware password removed.
> 
> Great.
> 
>> Followed the instructions..and attached the firewire cable to both...
>> The Ibook (without the DVD drive) shows a flashing world
> 
> Hmmm, disconnect the FireWire cable from both Macs, for now. (The
> flashing globe tells us that your iBook is set to "Network Disk" for
> startup.) I've just reviewed your previous posts and am reminded that
> you have no OS on the hard drive of the iBook - it's empty - correct?
> not really empty as it has parts of the install disk..but it won¹t boot to it.
> If that's the case, the flashing globe should change to a flashing
> folder icon with a question mark after a few minits, and then remain
> that way. Does this happen? If something else happens instead,
> describe it.
> yes this is what happens it changes to the flashing folder icon with ?
> 
>> If I plug in the firewire cable to ibook and macbook..i see the drive..etc
>> and its files.  
> 
> Sorry, I'm having trouble following this. I don't understand what
> drive you are seeing or where you are seeing it. I'll wait to hear
> your answers to the questions I've just asked.
If I just plug in the firewire cable to macbook and ibook.. I can see the
ibook hd on the macbook... And that is when I see the the parts of the
osx..from before....
> 
>>   I had been able to start new and install some of the osx
>> before the dvd drive became unusuable.  The dvd drive quit in the languages.
> 
> I don't know what you mean by this. I'll take a guess. You are
> referring to a much earlier time - a time when you attempted to
> install OS X on the iBook - and it was then that you found the
> optical drive to be defective. Correct? Or maybe you mean something
> else?  Correct.  
> 
>   M
> 
> 
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