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Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - graylocks - 04-07-2007
i have an iMac 333 that i'm giving away to a friends young teen. i want to make it as clean as possible. i plan to zero out the drive. is there any benefit to running Diskwarrior on it either before or after zeroing the drive or will wiping the drive wipe out any problems DW would have cleaned up?
Re: Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - btfc - 04-07-2007
"or will wiping the drive wipe out any problems DW would have cleaned up?"
yes, it will
Re: Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - graylocks - 04-07-2007
thanks. now i'm thinking of just doing some clean-up but not wiping the drive. the iMac came with OS 8.6 but at some point i put jaguar on it. i can't figure out how since the only jaguar disks i have are for my eMac 700 and i believe that doesn't allow installations on other machines. i did purchase Panther but at 160MB i don't think this iMac can handle that OS. i'd rather give him an OS X version - his family is only barely mac savvy and would be very confused by OS 8. i just checked and there is absolutely no personal data left on that machine.
Re: Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - Panopticon - 04-07-2007
...but at 160MB i don't think this iMac...
Sounds like a 32MB SODIMM + a 128MB SODIMM, right?
Your friend could upgrade it to 384MB with a 256MB stick from OWC for <$40. http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/100SO256168/
That should do it for OS X.
Re: Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - graylocks - 04-07-2007
[quote Panopticon]...but at 160MB i don't think this iMac...
Sounds like a 32MB SODIMM + a 128MB SODIMM, right?
Your friend could upgrade it to 384MB with a 256MB stick from OWC for <$40. http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/100SO256168/
That should do it for OS X.
thanks, i'll let them know. i have a 512K stick that i pulled out of my mac mini G4. you don't happen to know if that would work in this iMac. probably not; it looks larger than what i remember the 128 stick looking like.
Re: Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - RAMd®d - 04-07-2007
I would zero the drive. This should map out any bad blocks in the drive.
It needs more RAM for X. It maxes out at 512MB, and 384MB as Pano suggested is the very least I'd want to use.
Panther is a better OS, significantly faster than Jag.
Since you have Jag on it, you must have done the firmware upgrade, so that's fine.
What flavor is the iMac?
Re: Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - graylocks - 04-07-2007
[quote RAMd®d]I would zero the drive. ...
Panther is a better OS, significantly faster than Jag.
What flavor is the iMac?
she's purple!
jag is on there but, as i said, i can't remember how i installed it. if i zero the drive i'd only be able to install OS 8.6 and since that family has never seen that OS, it would really mess with their heads. i'll probably leave it be at this point. any file i used on it is gone. the kid (13) will be using it mainly for word processing. this family has dial up and they only got that last year!
Re: Cleaning up an iMac for giving away? - RgrF - 04-07-2007
If thats the usage and it's for a 13+, I'd leave it at 8.6. That was maybe the most stable OS I ever used. A 333 will struggle with any version of X, why make it do what it was never intended to do?
I have an old 500 and doubt I'd want to upgrade it to any version of X.
Maxing out the RAM to 512 is always a good idea for any OS.
If it has more than a 6 gig drive, it'll have to be partitioned with the start up OS8.6 in the 6 portion.