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Finally Getting a TiBook!
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So yesterday was an absolutely horrible day with all of the stuff I had to do after school, so I barely got a chance to play around with it sadly. Today, however, will be a much better day, so I'll take pictures and everything today. So far, I've wiped it down and cloned my leopard install from my 17in, which I'm starting to think didn't work so well because I've had a KP once while booting up (tried a PRAM reset afterwards) as well as a strange graphics issue upon rebooting. The battery is completely FUBAR. Wifi doesn't play nice, and I can't seem to get my little Edimax USB dongle to work (tried reinstalling the driver like 3 times to no luck). Lastly, I broke my OS 9 install, so I have to try and figure that out as well. Beyond that, I haven't don't anything else with it.
I absolutely love the screen. It looks and feels larger than it really is. The super narrow borders are absolutely beautiful. The keyboard feels amazing to type on, not to mention look at. My hinges as well as the left palm rest area have had the paint worn away. The top cover is very scratched up. Finally, the bottom is mostly ok, but it is missing it's bottom feet.
One day I plan to try and redo the paint on the entire machine. It probably won't be any time in the near future, but possibly one day I will decide to do so in an attempt to restore it to its original beautiful condition.
So today, I'll do my best to take some pictures and keep working out the kinks in the hose. Afterwards, it should be an awesome computer
I absolutely love the screen. It looks and feels larger than it really is. The super narrow borders are absolutely beautiful. The keyboard feels amazing to type on, not to mention look at. My hinges as well as the left palm rest area have had the paint worn away. The top cover is very scratched up. Finally, the bottom is mostly ok, but it is missing it's bottom feet.
One day I plan to try and redo the paint on the entire machine. It probably won't be any time in the near future, but possibly one day I will decide to do so in an attempt to restore it to its original beautiful condition.
So today, I'll do my best to take some pictures and keep working out the kinks in the hose. Afterwards, it should be an awesome computer
To add to my frustration and delay working on the TiBook, one of my PowerBooks a few weeks back must have decided to leave it's mark on my Leopard disk, because now there is a giant ring in the center, rendering it useless. I'm downloading 10.5.4 from the Garden now, and it could take an hour if I don't go move my MBP downstairs and hard wire it to my router...
Don't clone.
Install, Leopard, apply all updates, use Migration Assistant (after attaching the Mac you want to migrate your data from via TDM to the Titanium).
I offer this advice because I've been on the reverse end of this. My first 17" I cloned from my Tiger install on my TiBook. For about a year or more I had no backlight and various little oddities (such as missing items in System Preference panes). It was not until I upgraded that 17" to Leopard that the backlight started working and it all made sense.
The install that I had cloned from my TiBook was optimized for the TiBook, not for the 17" Mac. Since I upgraded from disk, the installer recognized that I had a 17" Mac and installed all the bits that weren't present because the original Tiger upgrade was done on the TiBook.
I imagine you are KPing because this is biting you in reverse. The install is expecting to do things using capabilities from a 17" Mac and the TiBook does not have those same capabilities. So, a kernel panic.
You'll need a Dual Layer disk to burn to. I'm sure you knew that, but in case not.
The Titanium DVDROM is not dual layer but it can read DL disks. Hope you have the right one. A Leopard install over USB 1.1 will take an eternity.
So through a complex series of methods, I formatted the drive, managed to get OS 9 onto the TiBook using a specialized image (courtesy of @bunnspecial), and began to install leopard. I have my 17in in TDM serving as the disk drive for the TiBook since I'm 99% sure the drive went bad. I tried multiple disks and the drive just kept spitting them back out at me, so I have reasons to believe it's dead. Anyway, battery is still FUBAR and it's got about an hour left on the install, but it's moving quickly.
Yeah, it all makes sense... I kinda figured after the graphic issue that because of me cloning was the issue. I should probably do fresh installs on everything, including my 17in, which was diverted from my now broken 15in. Same goes for my G5, iBook G4, and 12in PowerBook... Oh well, at least I know for next time I get a laptop!
Unlike you, all of my machines are maxed out at 10.5.8 already, so I can't do any updates on them to get the machine-specific drivers.
Well…to be honest, the OS in my Quicksilver is from the original upgrade on one of the G4's here at work and then the G5. I simply removed all the business crap (although I still seem unable to get rid of the domain name association).
The OS in the Mac Pro at work had the data from the G5 migrated over. So, essentially the data that was on the G5 when it "died" forked to a G4 (my QS) and a Mac Pro. Each Mac is just using a different aspect of it now.
That said, I've had to do a few Archive and Installs on the G4 at home because of the GigaDesigns dual CPU.
@eyoungren Just making sure you did not need one in case you wanted to reimage your QuickSilver. Though, I imagine reinstalling is a pain since you have the CPU upgrade in it.
Actually, that's less of a pain then some other stuff. It's a Sonnet now and apparently, the firmware is flashed - whether that's Giga or the flash from when they put in the single Sonnet I don't know.
The pain of an Erase and Install would be apps. Both reinstalling, setting up and tracking down stuff I've collected over the years. There's stuff on this Mac back to 2003 or earlier.
The pain of an Erase and Install would be apps. Both reinstalling, setting up and tracking down stuff I've collected over the years. There's stuff on this Mac back to 2003 or earlier.
I'm in the same boat. While I don't have a decade of stuff saved, I do have a lot of apps that are really time consuming to reinstall. That's why I clone my stuff. Perhaps what I should do is image a 10.5.4 install with all of my stuff, then install it to everything. That way when it upgrades to 10.5.8, all the proper drivers are downloaded and installed.
So another KP upon rebooting from installing 10.5.8 after the fresh install. I'm wondering if the faulty disk drive is to blame. Problem is, it seems random when it occurs, so I'd have to go into verbose every single time I boot it up until it happens again
So I have finally finished setting this machine up. I have iLife 09, iWork 09, Final Cut Express 4, TFF, Yosemite/El Cap icons blended with the included theme with CandyBar. I'm planning to install Tiger on a small 20GB partition for the hell of it, and to fix the "Graphic Panics", I'm going to attempt to redo the thermal paste. The fans seem to run CONSTANTLY.
Currently, I'm running monolingual. After that's done, I'll post some screenshots and run Geekbench per @128keaton's request. Pictures of the machine are still to come...
Currently, I'm running monolingual. After that's done, I'll post some screenshots and run Geekbench per @128keaton's request. Pictures of the machine are still to come...
I had a 1ghz TiBook about four years ago, in great condition, that I bought off LEMSWAP for $250. For the condition it was in, the price was worth it. Unfortunately, I fell on hard times and had to sell it locally (got the same price as I paid for it). Regretting it now. I've been trying to find one in good condition for a couple of years now for a Debian/OS 9.2.2 machine, but most that I come across are pretty munched. Congrats on your find!
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