Hi, my iBook is driving me up the wall. Recently tried to install an Apple software update for my iBook G4, which it seemed to be doing fine, then when restarting it would not boot up. It would get part way then simply shut off.
I rebooted from the system disk and ran Repair Disk. It cycled through the first portion of this with a progress bar at the bottom, then, when it got to the end of it it simply said Repairing Volume. I left it like this all night and when I came back to it in the morning, it still said the same. So, I stopped the repair and restarted it, and it booted up fine and I managed to get back into it. Now, when I go to Disk Utilities from Applications and run Repair Disk Permissions (Repair Disk is unavailable BTW when accessing the program this way - not sure if this is correct or not) it gets to the end and says that some SUID files have been modified and will not be repaired.
Now, whenever I restart the laptop, it will not reboot and I have to using the system disk to run Repair Disk and after leaving for 30mins or more I can restart it fine.
Knowing close to nothing, I am assuming that I need to erase the disk and start again?
However, I have some info that I do not want to lose. Not a huge amount as I also have an iMac with iPhoto and iTunes on. The stuff I don't want to lose from the iBook is office docs (which I know I can easily copy across to the iMac), but I have different mail and entourage contents on the iBook to iMac (which I need to keep) and would want to keep my favourites within Firefox so want to know how to save these.
If I connected the two with a firewire cable and simply copied my entourage, mail and firefox applications from the iBook to the desktop of the iMac, would it also copy all of my info and contents within the apps, so, when I erase the iBook I can simply copy back across?
Or, should I (assuming I can) use Time Machine to back up my iBook to iMac and then erase? My concern with doing this, is whether I would simply recreate my current problem (whatever it is) on the iBook when I restore from Time Machine.
All in all, I am stumped and really don't want to screw all my files up, so, I'd really appreciate some help.
Finally, and as bit of an aside, should I be doing something in the future to keep the disk in "good health" to avoid a repetition?
Thanks a lot
Matt
I rebooted from the system disk and ran Repair Disk. It cycled through the first portion of this with a progress bar at the bottom, then, when it got to the end of it it simply said Repairing Volume. I left it like this all night and when I came back to it in the morning, it still said the same. So, I stopped the repair and restarted it, and it booted up fine and I managed to get back into it. Now, when I go to Disk Utilities from Applications and run Repair Disk Permissions (Repair Disk is unavailable BTW when accessing the program this way - not sure if this is correct or not) it gets to the end and says that some SUID files have been modified and will not be repaired.
Now, whenever I restart the laptop, it will not reboot and I have to using the system disk to run Repair Disk and after leaving for 30mins or more I can restart it fine.
Knowing close to nothing, I am assuming that I need to erase the disk and start again?
However, I have some info that I do not want to lose. Not a huge amount as I also have an iMac with iPhoto and iTunes on. The stuff I don't want to lose from the iBook is office docs (which I know I can easily copy across to the iMac), but I have different mail and entourage contents on the iBook to iMac (which I need to keep) and would want to keep my favourites within Firefox so want to know how to save these.
If I connected the two with a firewire cable and simply copied my entourage, mail and firefox applications from the iBook to the desktop of the iMac, would it also copy all of my info and contents within the apps, so, when I erase the iBook I can simply copy back across?
Or, should I (assuming I can) use Time Machine to back up my iBook to iMac and then erase? My concern with doing this, is whether I would simply recreate my current problem (whatever it is) on the iBook when I restore from Time Machine.
All in all, I am stumped and really don't want to screw all my files up, so, I'd really appreciate some help.
Finally, and as bit of an aside, should I be doing something in the future to keep the disk in "good health" to avoid a repetition?
Thanks a lot
Matt