chris,
After all my other attempts at getting the G3 to boot, I had ordered an IDE drive to stick in it, supposing the SCSI HD in it was bad. (We bought the Mac with the SCSI drive in it, it didn't have an IDE HD.) But, then on Friday, I had another possibility come to me, so I tried it. When I had been installing a temp system folder after initiating the drive, to use for the restore via Retrospect, I was selecting and using a minimal system install. The Mac would boot from this but I would have trouble getting the restore to complete, and the Mac was subsequently having trouble booting after that. This time, initialized the HD again with Drive Setup, and I let the installer do the suggested install of OS 9.1. Then went about the restore. Lo and behold, after this restoration, the drive booted up and is working. Every time, both before and this time, I was having the installer update the driver, so unless the installer was doing something 'funny' that wasn't different. But _something_ different occurred this time. So the IDE drive arrived Friday, too, and I'm debating whether I need it. Doug -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
