When a clean installation of Mac OS 8.6 is performed using the Install Mac OS icon from the installation CD that shipped with the unit, the PowerBook specific About Your PowerBook help files are not installed. These files contain important information about the customer's PowerBook and offer assistance performing PowerBook specific hardware tasks, such as installing additional memory, or using the unit's security features.
Note: This does not occur if the Mac OS Software Restore option is used. However, it is sometimes desirable to customize your installation of the Mac OS, and customized installation of the Mac OS is not possible using the Restore feature.
To reinstall the About Your PowerBook specific help files:
1. Insert the PowerBook Software Restore CD into the Powerbook's CD-ROM drive, and double-click on the CD's icon after it appears on the desktop.
2. In the CD's root directory, find and open the Configurations folder.
3. Open the Configurations folder, and double-click on the file "PowerBook G3 Series HD.img". This will launch Disk Copy, which will perform a checksum on the "PowerBook G3 Series HD.img" before mounting the image.
Note: Checksum verification may take several minutes with large images.
4. When Disk Copy has finished mounting the image, there will be a new Hard Drive icon on the desktop named "Macintosh HD", and it will automatically open to the root directory.
5. Open the System Folder of the new Macintosh HD, then find and open the Help folder.
6. Drag the About Your PowerBook folder from the Help folder into your computer's Help folder, located in the System Folder.
When the files are copied to your System Folder, select Restart in the Finder's Special menu. After restarting, the Help files will be available in the Help Center's main menu.