You didn’t physically break the PowerBook, you mentally broke it. It was positive thinking holding it together, and when you gave up hope, the computer broke.
@Joke, You make it sound like getting a job is destiny or something. The fact is that you will never get rich working for somebody else because you are helping them get rich. Journalism is definitely on the other end of the "work force" spectrum and is usually freelancer work. Successful freelancers often hire people like you so you can have a "job".
Thanks Druaga1. I have had more than my fair share of complete failures and much shedding of blood on sharp PC case edges. I thoroughly enjoyed and shared your pain.
The axle of your Conner hard drive is blocked. I revived mine by opening it carefully, giving the platter a gentle rotating move (not touching platters, touching the center), and while I was there, putting a couple drops of bicycle lube. It worked for some times, then the power adapter broke (you can apparently open those non-destructively by clamping them on a vice, check on the 68kmla forums). Also, macs boot from a floppy by default. To eject the floppy, keep the mouse button pressed whilst booting.
What Druaga1 didn't know was that PPC Macs can't *normally* boot from USB. At least not when using the boot picker. But you can always do some magic using the OpenFirmware command line to boot from USB.
On top of that, he should have used dd on the G4 to write the image to the USB so it would actually have the boot blocks and not just files on a file system.
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The difference between the new MacBook Pro and the PowerBook 170 is that System 6.0.8 will start up significantly faster than Mac OS X could ever hope to *dream* of. It doesn't matter about raw computer power - it's efficiency. Intel proved that in the early 2000s with the Pentium 4 vs. AMD's Athlon series.
Hey Druaga1 I'm a fan of your videos and don't worry, i still liked this video a lot as it made me laugh many time. Keep on making them, they help me relax after a hard week. Thank you and keep on smoking.
+Druaga1 I recently had to reinstall OS x for a customer on a PowerBook g4 and it turns out it doesn't natively have support for USB boot only firewire. The way to boot to USB is you have to go into command line and do a bunch of commands in order to make it recognize the USB as a bootable device and boot through the command line. Hope this helps, love your videos keep up the good work.
Get an Android device, root it, and get DriveDroid. Load your android with ISOs and use that instead of burning CDs. Your computer thinks your phone is a CD drive with the ISO and loads even off OS.
Powerbooks are IDE, you can try putting CF cards in them with an adapter. There are some steps involved, but it's not impossible. I have a couple CF cards spare so I can do it if I need.
I heard that someone tries to boot off USB using OpenFirmware command prompt.. But that's just what I know. So... It looks like you cannot directly boot using that menu.
By the by, I recently picked up a PowerBook 140 that... didn't work. Or so I thought, until I grabbed a multimeter and realized that the power brick is dead. From what I've read, these power bricks are fairly fragile and die if you blow on them too hard, so you might want to try getting another 7.5v power supply, and splice the cable across, or just buy an aftermarket supply
laptop 2 noise is hard drive failure, the 'mac portable' was the first apple portable laptop, had my hands on one many years ago, i should have bought it.
OH SHIT! DRUAGA! Just go to sleep, take a week off, you're not yourself. You need it. Go do an SSD review, record some benchmarks, something that isn't fucking around with Linux, Mac, Windows. Just take an off day. Seriously.
Some Bios, expecely old ones, don't support USB boot, you can use PloP from any Hirens CD that you have, then you can boot from USB on an unsupported Bios
I have a PowerBook 100 just like that in my basement. Unfortunately the Hard Drive is long dead, and the only replacement is either another ancient hard drive or a CF adapter that costs like $115.
Hey Druaga, great video as usual. Hope your wound doesn't leave you terribly disfigured. About those old Apple laptops. Could the cord (and/or power brick) you were plugging into them have failed toward the end? Seems like you went from getting something going on to absolutely nothing. Thanks for the vid!
Just so you know you can reuse DVD-RW disks as many times as you want, so after you write to it once you can write to it again and again so you don't waste it
Hey druaga, linux person here to put a few notes down about RUFUS and bootable ISOs on USBs. You may find it useful if you ever need to make bootable USBs in the future. When RUFUS says DD-image it's referring to the program dd. All it's really doing is taking the iso image and copying it byte for byte to the USB. For a majority of linux and BSD isos (as well as many other bootable isos), this will result in a bootable drive. (Assuming that the BIOS of the target machine, unlike the powerbook's, *can* boot from USB) A thing to keep in mind is that after using DD-mode that you can't always reformat that USB properly, your OS and partitioning software may not detect it properly anymore. HOWEVER, there is a way to undo this. (the internet seems very convinced that DD-image is permanent, it is not) You do, however, need a linux install to do this. (might be doable under windows or mac, but I don't know how to do it under those OSes) The basic idea is to zero the first few MB or so of the drive, which removes the ISO signature that fucks up detection by partitioning software. I tend to do it with the command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ bs=512K count=1 (that is zero, not null. Important difference.) If that doesn't work, try running it without the bs= and count= arguments to just zero the whole drive (I've found this needed in a few rare cases, but it's very slow and zeroing the first 0.5MB tends to work fine in 95% of the ISOs I've tried). As to what the ISO mode of rufus does, it finagles around with filesystems and messes with the ISO to make certain types of ISOs work without needing aformentioned trick to make the drive usable again afterwards. I know you probably won't see or read this, but I figure I might as well put it out there in case someone finds it useful. I want to note that I always enjoy watching you screw around with (older) hardware, even if things don't always work out properly.
Druaga the reason those power books probably aren't working is because of the old power adapter. I have a PowerBook 120 (I think) and I had to replace the adapter. Every once in a blue moon the old adapter would work. I believe the PowerBooks use 19v and 3a. But I'd double check
I had to use "open firmware" mode (command-option-o-f on boot, I think) and some commands from the Ubuntu site (I think) to make an old TiBook boot from a USB because the disc drive is broken. I'm sure the same would work on this. I had those commands memorized for a while, because of all the reinstalls I did.
the year of compute time on the Powerbook 170 would have been spent doing useful work vs the 5 seconds of browsing tumblr at starbucks on the new Macbook
WOW you had the worst of luck! I feel bad for u dude, but at least the Apple gods have been pleased.. your blood sacrifice might bring headphone jacks back again ;) PS: Hope you don't end up with a dying power supply/adaptor being the problem with those 2 oldies :o
I'm pretty sure on the G4 Architecture, you can't boot off of USB from that boot device screen. You have to manually type in commands from the screen that comes up if you hold Command + Option + O + F before the gong. There are some guides online, just search for 'boot off of USB G4' or something similar. You should be able to boot from there in theory :) I had to use a USB to format a bunch of iBook G4's for a school project, and those guides helped me a bit. I'm pretty sure I ended up buying a retail version of Leopard tho...
druaga1 video in 4 words : Simple idea, convoluted outcome
Sounds an awful lot like Apple to me
AdamB SICO
blood sacrificed has been made. you have appeased the computer gods.
Thanks RUclips for randomly recommending this to me.
no prob
+LightOnOff (Fesiug) hi youtube
Hey smoker, welcome ;)
And you enjoyed this video and Druga's sarcasm? ^^
welcome, smoker
If I recall correctly, Yellow Dog Linux was what the US Air Force used for their PS3 supercomputer cluster, that's probably why they have a PS3 build.
You didn’t physically break the PowerBook, you mentally broke it. It was positive thinking holding it together, and when you gave up hope, the computer broke.
spending my entire sick day off school watching druaga1 is the only proper thing to do
Eating cooked eggs and watching Druaga destroy ancient art, what a life.
I'm in Journalism class... But Druaga1 made a new video thus I have to watch it in it's entirety, because Druaga1 is my religion.
Hey you have already got journalism 101 down packed may as well watch it up.
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The future of the nation...
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@Joke, You make it sound like getting a job is destiny or something. The fact is that you will never get rich working for somebody else because you are helping them get rich. Journalism is definitely on the other end of the "work force" spectrum and is usually freelancer work. Successful freelancers often hire people like you so you can have a "job".
Thanks Druaga1. I have had more than my fair share of complete failures and much shedding of blood on sharp PC case edges.
I thoroughly enjoyed and shared your pain.
You literally shed blood to make this video :D
Confirmed 31:07 Duraga1 is Scarce
ProtoMario holy shit ur right!
LOL
since I am scarce............when it comes to dvds
That trackball looks like a horrible cyst growing out of that poor machine.
1. RW discs can be erased and re-burned.
2. Try plugging in the drive you were using instead of letting it run on magical thoughts.
You don't understand, Druaga makes videos under the intention of doing things the most difficult way possible.
It's true.
number 2 OMG XD
I second that!
previous video: no more weed jokes, This video: a weed joke in the intro
The axle of your Conner hard drive is blocked. I revived mine by opening it carefully, giving the platter a gentle rotating move (not touching platters, touching the center), and while I was there, putting a couple drops of bicycle lube. It worked for some times, then the power adapter broke (you can apparently open those non-destructively by clamping them on a vice, check on the 68kmla forums). Also, macs boot from a floppy by default. To eject the floppy, keep the mouse button pressed whilst booting.
guy tries to computer, everything breaks.
Rufus is awesome software that works perfectly. The problem is that PowerPC macs with "old world" boot loader don't support USB booting
What Druaga1 didn't know was that PPC Macs can't *normally* boot from USB.
At least not when using the boot picker.
But you can always do some magic using the OpenFirmware command line to boot from USB.
Le Docteur "boot usb1/disk@1:,\\yaboot" or something like that.
yes I could install Linux on a g5 from USB with this guide:
ben-collins.blogspot.ch/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html
On top of that, he should have used dd on the G4 to write the image to the USB so it would actually have the boot blocks and not just files on a file system.
The usb drive should have been using the apple partition map. I believe all ppc macs require this to boot
he did write it in rufus using dd mode, that shouldn't be the problem
When he said we might use compact flash, my heart stopped for a second
"Oh boy a druaga video! eh, I didn't need to sleep anyway"
every damn early druaga comment...
skipped school yesterday and today to watch, thanks 4 upload bro
logan dont do that
I'm going to tell your teacher Logan
logan good
That's how it's done, my man xD
Same but I had surgery :)
Surprised he didn't name the USB drive "yellow dogg"
Finally, a Druaga1 video I can waste my time with.
:D
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Again, don't care what you upload. I will probably be here until you quit, if you do. Don't care if you don't upload anything at all for a while, I'll still be here. You can at least count on having one reliable viewer.
-BNMC0919
LOL, one of the best videos yet! Everyone who has been a tech for any amount of time has had these kinds of days.
Laptops on the carpet and OLD? This is why I love you Druaga
The difference between the new MacBook Pro and the PowerBook 170 is that System 6.0.8 will start up significantly faster than Mac OS X could ever hope to *dream* of.
It doesn't matter about raw computer power - it's efficiency. Intel proved that in the early 2000s with the Pentium 4 vs. AMD's Athlon series.
That CMOS battery isn't soldered on, it's spot welded!
omg it's because of the os, not the "efficiency" of the cpu
Doofus Industries dude your so right!
Make a series called "Will it Compact Flash"
That would be amazing
This is exactly how all my hackintosh projects go, every time. Your Sunday is over and you haven't get shit done.
This episode sponsored by Ireland.
Curse of the Powerbooks! You must slay the Powerbook gohst and free yourself!!
i like gohsts.
t'is fellow wtf ghosts are dangerous
Hope you didn't cut yourself up too bad on that powerbook. That OpenArena flashback comment really got me tho.
Hey Druaga1 I'm a fan of your videos and don't worry, i still liked this video a lot as it made me laugh many time. Keep on making them, they help me relax after a hard week. Thank you and keep on smoking.
Whenever I feel like I'm not an idiot, I listen to your videos. Just to know that there's someone out there literally exactly like me.
+Druaga1 I recently had to reinstall OS x for a customer on a PowerBook g4 and it turns out it doesn't natively have support for USB boot only firewire. The way to boot to USB is you have to go into command line and do a bunch of commands in order to make it recognize the USB as a bootable device and boot through the command line. Hope this helps, love your videos keep up the good work.
Taking apart and reassembling (especially) is the most terrifying and scary thing you will ever do
The all-new Macintosh Paddybook 170
Benjamin Brady introducing the MacBook 420
Get an Android device, root it, and get DriveDroid. Load your android with ISOs and use that instead of burning CDs. Your computer thinks your phone is a CD drive with the ISO and loads even off OS.
BladeMaverick lol thats cool. never heard of that
I still have my unopened Lightscribe CDs from 2006
amanguver Send me one, I have a lightscribe drive
AEX10 Buy a pack from Amazon
Duffel Bag Full of Tech I'm joking lol
except that wasn't last week
Thats why I wear rubber gloves when I repair computers, I would have destroyed the glove, not my finger.
I keep hearing how wonderful Mac designs are. But that tear down was ridiculous.
omfg this video represents every single time I install OSes.... so much back and forth... Awesome video though :3
Powerbooks are IDE, you can try putting CF cards in them with an adapter. There are some steps involved, but it's not impossible. I have a couple CF cards spare so I can do it if I need.
Please don't give up on the PowerBooks.
Never have I been so happy to click on a youtube recommendation.
Sometimes old stuff just doesn't wants to work. Of course sometimes NEW stuff doesn't wants to work either.
next time, destroying the bastard laptops that cut Druaga1
bobmanuk yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
"Who wants to use their DVD like a flash drive?"
_laughs in DVD-RAM_
At 45:39 I started bawling
I really admire your patience. Keep up the good work
I heard that someone tries to boot off USB using OpenFirmware command prompt.. But that's just what I know.
So... It looks like you cannot directly boot using that menu.
By the by, I recently picked up a PowerBook 140 that... didn't work. Or so I thought, until I grabbed a multimeter and realized that the power brick is dead. From what I've read, these power bricks are fairly fragile and die if you blow on them too hard, so you might want to try getting another 7.5v power supply, and splice the cable across, or just buy an aftermarket supply
I love how you do all this computer stuff on the shaggiest carpet known to man. Ballsy stuff.
It sounds like you have the same luck with installing things as I do
It never goes your way
Wait, so, if I buy a Powerbook 170 from the USA, then it would have went from Ireland to the US, and back. huh.
One of my like 10 laugh for minutes till I choke moments at the end. 10/10 Would Powerbook again!
a druaga1 video always brightens up my day
yes Druaga that does mean the PlayStation 3 as it has an install other os button thats been removed from the PlayStation 3 os
10:42 those words prove that Druaga1 will try to put an SSD (or some form of NAND storage) into everything.
You should check if you got the extended warranty and contact Apple support.
It was the first powerbook that was ever smoked!
Gotta sue Apple for that cut!
dat power brick. hate them it takes up two slots for no reason
It hurts me to watch you do this. More! I NEED MORE!
im sitting here stoned watching you take apart this 170 and it hits me, LOL i have the exact same screwdriver set from ebay! thumbs up for that homie
i have a powerbook 170 and when it does that with the hard drive it means its broken and should be removed asap
You know it's obsolete when a MAC is used for comparison.
hey smokers
hey d00d
Duraga1 here
laptop 2 noise is hard drive failure, the 'mac portable' was the first apple portable laptop, had my hands on one many years ago, i should have bought it.
Did you know rufus has a small timer in the lower right hand corner?
Those were actually released at the same time. The 100 is just the slim, light model.
I have at least a hundred of both DVDs and CDs, you can find them literally everywhere.
When Druaga has a rage moment and throws flame at his only life style of collecting spare disks xD.
OH SHIT! DRUAGA! Just go to sleep, take a week off, you're not yourself. You need it. Go do an SSD review, record some benchmarks, something that isn't fucking around with Linux, Mac, Windows. Just take an off day. Seriously.
druaga1 video= leave studying, time to watch
Some Bios, expecely old ones, don't support USB boot, you can use PloP from any Hirens CD that you have, then you can boot from USB on an unsupported Bios
BigBangClips but that only works on x86 and not on older apple ppc macs
I have a PowerBook 100 just like that in my basement.
Unfortunately the Hard Drive is long dead, and the only replacement is either another ancient hard drive or a CF adapter that costs like $115.
Hey Druaga, great video as usual. Hope your wound doesn't leave you terribly disfigured.
About those old Apple laptops. Could the cord (and/or power brick) you were plugging into them have failed toward the end? Seems like you went from getting something going on to absolutely nothing.
Thanks for the vid!
Ive got like at least 5 of those in my workshop that may or may not work. Id test and fix em but i dont have power supplies for them
Just so you know you can reuse DVD-RW disks as many times as you want, so after you write to it once you can write to it again and again so you don't waste it
Hey druaga, linux person here to put a few notes down about RUFUS and bootable ISOs on USBs. You may find it useful if you ever need to make bootable USBs in the future.
When RUFUS says DD-image it's referring to the program dd. All it's really doing is taking the iso image and copying it byte for byte to the USB. For a majority of linux and BSD isos (as well as many other bootable isos), this will result in a bootable drive. (Assuming that the BIOS of the target machine, unlike the powerbook's, *can* boot from USB) A thing to keep in mind is that after using DD-mode that you can't always reformat that USB properly, your OS and partitioning software may not detect it properly anymore. HOWEVER, there is a way to undo this. (the internet seems very convinced that DD-image is permanent, it is not) You do, however, need a linux install to do this. (might be doable under windows or mac, but I don't know how to do it under those OSes) The basic idea is to zero the first few MB or so of the drive, which removes the ISO signature that fucks up detection by partitioning software. I tend to do it with the command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ bs=512K count=1 (that is zero, not null. Important difference.) If that doesn't work, try running it without the bs= and count= arguments to just zero the whole drive (I've found this needed in a few rare cases, but it's very slow and zeroing the first 0.5MB tends to work fine in 95% of the ISOs I've tried). As to what the ISO mode of rufus does, it finagles around with filesystems and messes with the ISO to make certain types of ISOs work without needing aformentioned trick to make the drive usable again afterwards.
I know you probably won't see or read this, but I figure I might as well put it out there in case someone finds it useful.
I want to note that I always enjoy watching you screw around with (older) hardware, even if things don't always work out properly.
If you completely kill a led acid battery, it is completely dead and will never work no matter how much you charge it.
Some PowerBooks are serviced in AppleCare so hopefully some of PowerBooks is faulty
Druaga the reason those power books probably aren't working is because of the old power adapter. I have a PowerBook 120 (I think) and I had to replace the adapter. Every once in a blue moon the old adapter would work. I believe the PowerBooks use 19v and 3a. But I'd double check
I had to use "open firmware" mode (command-option-o-f on boot, I think) and some commands from the Ubuntu site (I think) to make an old TiBook boot from a USB because the disc drive is broken. I'm sure the same would work on this.
I had those commands memorized for a while, because of all the reinstalls I did.
135 views, never been so early.
pretty much
I am not done with the vid yet but at one point when the PowerBook 170 wont boot is becuse the rom is stored on the Hard Drive.
Exactly, when I saw that the hard disk had an EPROM label on it, I knew why it wasn't booting up.
the year of compute time on the Powerbook 170 would have been spent doing useful work vs the 5 seconds of browsing tumblr at starbucks on the new Macbook
rest in pease druaga1
Blackandfan he didn’t died
To boot usb from powerbook g4's
hold down option, cmd O F,
type in boot usb1/disk@1:,\\yaboot.
and hit enter.
WOW you had the worst of luck! I feel bad for u dude, but at least the Apple gods have been pleased.. your blood sacrifice might bring headphone jacks back again ;)
PS: Hope you don't end up with a dying power supply/adaptor being the problem with those 2 oldies :o
PowerPCs can't boot from USB unless you boot into Open Firmware and start it from there.
on screws like that 6:53 u pry in between the case to put tension on it then they usually come out btw
Someone buy him a few iFixit plastic opening tools/spudgers so he can open things without breaking them
RIP in peace Druaga1, 19xx - 2017.
I wish I could find a use for old Macintosh, PowerBooks, Thinkpads, and PCs in 2017 :(
If I had a good use, then I would buy one as soon as I could.
I'm pretty sure on the G4 Architecture, you can't boot off of USB from that boot device screen. You have to manually type in commands from the screen that comes up if you hold Command + Option + O + F before the gong. There are some guides online, just search for 'boot off of USB G4' or something similar. You should be able to boot from there in theory :)
I had to use a USB to format a bunch of iBook G4's for a school project, and those guides helped me a bit. I'm pretty sure I ended up buying a retail version of Leopard tho...
Druaga1 you should try Rufus. It makes bootable USB's of Windows, Linux, OS X, etc. you can also use USB hard drives
To boot from USBs on PPC Macs, you need to do some open firmware trickery. At least, that's how I installed Leopard to a G5 with one.
Fairly sure you can only boot Firewire drives off those old G4 Powerbooks. I could be wrong. May be thinking of Target Mode.