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Alright i was at the local landfill today and i found a shiny emac and took it home. It's a 700mhz\384mb\40gb\combo\geforce2\osx9.1.
I don't have a keyboard for it yet, just a mouse but i turned it on anyway and it booted up into the os until when it looked like it was finished loading a screen pops up that says it didn't load my quicktime software because it is outdated and asks me if i want to update it. It doesn't matter if i click yes or no, either way the desktop icons appear and then the machine freezes and i can't click on anything although i can still move the mouse and in the upper left hand corner of the screen there is something continuously blinking just to the left of the the little apple. Now i'm pc knowledgeable but i know zero about macs. Could this have anything to do with the fact that there is no keyboard? Does this sound like a software issue? I plan on getting a keyboard in a couple of days. When i have one is there any kind of safe mode i can access to attempt to fix the problem? If i can get my hands on an osx 9.1 cd will i be able to do a re-install? Can other forms of linux be installed on a mac? Anything else i should know?
If you made it this far thanks for reading my thread.
Since i've never used a mac i'm looking forward to learning about this rig.
I don't have a keyboard for it yet, just a mouse but i turned it on anyway and it booted up into the os until when it looked like it was finished loading a screen pops up that says it didn't load my quicktime software because it is outdated and asks me if i want to update it. It doesn't matter if i click yes or no, either way the desktop icons appear and then the machine freezes and i can't click on anything although i can still move the mouse and in the upper left hand corner of the screen there is something continuously blinking just to the left of the the little apple. Now i'm pc knowledgeable but i know zero about macs. Could this have anything to do with the fact that there is no keyboard? Does this sound like a software issue? I plan on getting a keyboard in a couple of days. When i have one is there any kind of safe mode i can access to attempt to fix the problem? If i can get my hands on an osx 9.1 cd will i be able to do a re-install? Can other forms of linux be installed on a mac? Anything else i should know?
If you made it this far thanks for reading my thread.
Since i've never used a mac i'm looking forward to learning about this rig.