woo hoo I got OSX today now help me get passed my first problem please

[Ecodisk]

I was going to install osx on a spare hard drive I had laying around I got all the way to the part were it asks you to choose a drive to install it on....the drive wasn't there. I opened up the disk utility thing and told it to fix the drive and format it to an apple format instead of dos. Now I go back to the installer and the hard drive is there, but it says that I can't install anything on it. What am I doing wrong?

 

[mad jew]

What sort of Mac is it? Is it relatively new? You may need a firmware hack if it's old.

 

[Ecodisk]

What sort of Mac is it? Is it relatively new? You may need a firmware hack if it's old.

Its a Blue and White G3 with 128mb of ram. I am trying to install osx 10.3

 

[mad jew]

I think that'll need a firmware update although I never worked with any of those older Macs so I could be wrong. Try the appropriate patch all the same.

 

[Ecodisk]

Ok while I was waiting for a reply I restarted and tried again and it worked. I guess you are suppose to restart the installation if your drives are not ready when you first start it up?

 

[Makosuke]

Ok while I was waiting for a reply I restarted and tried again and it worked. I guess you are suppose to restart the installation if your drives are not ready when you first start it up?

I ran into exactly this, and it's not limited to older Macs--for whatever reason, if you format a drive from the install DVD, it won't recognize it as an installable disk until you've restarted.

Pretty minor glitch, but it can be confusing.

 

[Eidorian]

Can you even boot off an external FireWire drive using the B&W? I tried it on mine and it never worked. I just shared a DVD-ROM around all of them to install Tiger.

If that firmware update always Target Disk mode I'm installing it. <.<