Unimplemented Trap Blues

[vonGobo]

Howdy y'all,

This is a pretty ugly scenario here. I'll give ya the details.....

We recently sent our G3 to the shop, came back with Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.2 in a new 62 gig (grin!) drive. This was set as the master drive. Our old hard drive, a 6 gig running Mac OS 8.6 was fragged pretty bad because of Connectix and other things. It was designated as the slave drive. I had plans to wipe it clean and use it as a virtual PC.

So I'm copying all the needed files from my old 6 gig to the new 62 gig OS X beast. That goes smoothly. I install AppleWorks 6 smoothly, and reboot. I do the same with Deluxe Quicken 2000. The next day, while playing with AppleWorks 6 (which requires the Mac OS 9), I come to the sullen realization that the Easy Installation installs crap for fonts. So I pop in my AppleWorks 6 CD and reinstall it with all the fonts. No, I didn't uninstall. I think that was my cardinal sin. I rebooted the machine, and I receive an ever jubilant "Unimplemented Trap" error. "Try restarting while holding down the shift key", it tells me. I try that, and I still get the error message.

Now that I'm panicking, I pop in the G3 system CD, run DiskRepair on the Mac OS X 62 gig drive. It tells me that MountCheck found a minor problem (really, I can't see how this is a minor problem, lol). I reboot, and the 'minor problem' is still there. I've run Startup Disk in the control panel and told it to run from the Mac OS X drive, that didn't do any good. We removed all of the AppleWorks files, thinking that since the error came when we reinstalled Appleworks it may go away when the Appleworks are removed. That didn't help either. SO! Now I'm exasperated and need some guidance. I'm relatively new to the Mac systems, and this certainly isn't making a good impression! PLEASE HELP!!!

[edX]

1st - it sounds like you made a cardinal mistake for new converts - trying too hard. to start with, you should have run software update and made sure your system was up to date. 10.1.5 came out this week. then go to apple and get the updater for appleworks. move apple works to the applications folder (from the os 9 applications folder). update it. I'm not sure if you can still do these steps or not, but i would try. as for font instalation - see this site's design forum (Front End) for advice on how to do it most efficintly and safely.

oh, and your appleworks will be os x now and much better.

and hopefully you haven't wiped that 6gb drive clean yet so you can do a fresh formatting and start all over.

and then there is my favorite suggestion that almost always works for me - buy a 3rd party repair program like Diskwarrior/Plus Optimizer or Techtool Pro and let them fix what you screwed up. Apple's disk repair utility is minimal. I also advise avoiding norton and symantec unless you feel ok about losing data.

[DeltaMac]

Original 6GB HD? This system might be a Beige G3? If so, then that big new HD is certainly more than 8GB, which Apple recommends as first partition. That is where the operating system, especially OSX, should be installed. Reinstall OSX on original HD, should work OK then. If you're going to use Big HD as bootup, then HD has to be partitioned with one partition less than 8GB, (2nd or more can be whatever your choice.)