Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This made no sense so I tried resetting pram, power manager, tried an external keyboard, used a zip with 9.1 on it, and diskwarrior but no luck. Thinking I must have damaged something, I took the new drive out and replaced the old. It started up and I was able to boot the 10.2 disk. Put the new drive in an enclosure, hooked it up to my G4 and formatted and partioned it. Back into the Wallstreet and the same problem. I have installed a number of drives over the years, but this has me stumped. Its got to be something simple I'm overlooking - a real forehead smacker. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here?
Rereading this post led me to understand that you have a clean HD without any OS on it. Boot from a OS 9 CD. Partition the HD in two sections, the first partition must be less than 8 GB. Install OS 9 on the second partition. I don't know if you can do this from your Zip drive, unless you have the disk utility on it. After installing the OS, restart the machine using OS 9 then download XPF and install OS X.3 using XPF on the first partition. I would not install X.2 on the Wall Street as it causes all sorts of flaky monitor behaviours, like a 'melting' effect from which you cannot recover without a restart, no wake from sleep, desktop pictures that are partially scrambled cured by moving an open window around (mine did this on the lower portion of the monitor only). The first two are the real 'turn- offs,' though. I have a 12" WS I upgraded to a 300 MHz processor and 83 MHz bus as a result of the upgrade and added a larger HD as you are doing. X. 3 has run with a hitch and smoothly even with only 160 MB of RAM. I have also worked on a WS II with a 14.1" screen, doing much the same. I had the same issues with X.2 on it as well, but no problems with X.3. If you should go to X.3 do follow XPF's directions for installation carefully as there is a video issue with a WS installation of X.3.
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