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First Install on a New HDD

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Knapan

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Feb 1, 2007
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So I bought a new quiter hdd for my g3 iMac, and I started it up, inserted the PSX 10.3 cd's and it doesnt seem to be doing anything. A very simple text thing came up and told be to type boot-mac and now its just sitting there with a folder icon flashing from the mac sign to a ?.

Can someone help me!? :confused:
 
Eidorian said:
Did you hold down 'C' to boot off of your CD?
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I tried doing that, just now, and nothign happens. It brings me to like a bootscreen and tells me to type "boot-mac" or "shut-down"

is there a boot cd command I should type?
 
Hmmm...Ive tried fooling around a bit more and I have no idea. I am a first time mac user, so feel free to post really obvious stuff! :p
 
Knapan said:
I tried doing that, just now, and nothign happens. It brings me to like a bootscreen and tells me to type "boot-mac" or "shut-down"

is there a boot cd command I should type?
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That is odd. Did you make sure the drive was set to Master? You can partition and format the drive using your installer disc but it sounds like your Mac can't see the drive you've installed.

I don't understand why the Open Firmware command line comes up.
 
Eidorian said:
That is odd. Did you make sure the drive was set to Master? You can partition and format the drive using your installer disc but it sounds like your Mac can't see the drive you've installed.

I don't understand why the Open Firmware command line comes up.
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Oh god...Awww...Damn.

Im 99% sure its set to slave :rolleyes:

Well, ugh. What a pain in the butt.

Thanks Ill try that! :eek:
 
Eidorian said:
Yeah you only have one IDE bus on there. The hard drive is master and the CD/DVD-ROM is slave.
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OK, now to the next problem.

I have the jumper switched and it detects the hdd, and I can boot to the OSX 10.3 cd and stuff. I also went into Disk Utility and formatted the hdd as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). So I go to install OSX, get to the select disc drive part, and theres a red ! . It says it cannot have OSX installed on it. :mad:

Help! :eek:
 
According to this disc info its Device 0....

This from a bit of reading might be a problem?
 
Knapan said:
OK, now to the next problem.

I have the jumper switched and it detects the hdd, and I can boot to the OSX 10.3 cd and stuff. I also went into Disk Utility and formatted the hdd as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). So I go to install OSX, get to the select disc drive part, and theres a red ! . It says it cannot have OSX installed on it. :mad:

Help! :eek:
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Are you sure it's a universal PowerPC installer disc and not an upgrade or machine specific version of 10.3?
 
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