--- Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:33:05PM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > > The machine had macos8.1 installed on it. > > I completely removed it to install linux, after which I found it > can't > > boot on it without bootx, > > I moved things around and freed up a partition for mac os. > > I tried to install it but it wouldn't install without erasing the > whole > > disk (is there a way around it?) > > You can install on a single partition, but Drive Setup won't let you > initialize a single partition. If you already have the partition > initialized wiht an HFS file system, it should mount on the Mac > desktop > and you should be able to install a system on that partition. > > > I then tried to write the disk utils floppy (or something like > that) to > > floppy and reboot, to see if it would enable partitioning the disk > > without wiping it out first. > > When I rebooted I got a white screen with a _ at the top left. > > I tried command option p r but it did nothing. > > I tried commad option o f and it booted into firmware (version > 2.0f1) > > I tried taking out the battery and unplugging it, same result. > > I then tried chaging boot device to ide1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 to reboot from > cd. > > next time I just got the black screen on boot. It did make the > starting > > sound from the speaker and fired up the cdrom, but nothing else. > > Any idea how to get around that? > > It sounds like you don't have a MacOS CD. Even if you were to get a > floppy system to boot, you'd need an installation CD, or some way of > accessing the installation software. Just copying the system software > from the MacOS floppy is not likely to work.
Its definitly a mac os cd, it booted and wanted to start the instelation, but I couldn't mount the disk so I tried to make the disk tool floppy which ruined the firmware (I am guessing) somehow. > > > and is there a way to install mac os 8.1 without wiping the whole > disk > > in the process? > > Are you unable to boot your Linux installation? quik has been known > to work on a beige G3, if installed on a scsi drive. Its an ide drive, and I tried it and got can't access something 0:0 (probably couldn't find the boot file ot watever it was looking for). > > -- > *----------------------------------------------------------------* > | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | To HAVE, GIVE all TO all (ACIM) | > *----------------------------------------------------------------* > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
