On Oct 14, 2004, at 11:18 AM, J�rg Duurkoop wrote:
Hi all,
Perhaps this has already been explained but please bear with me!
I just got an older iMac for 80 euros, it had a 4 GB harddisk and 64 MB RAM. I went and bought a 512 MB SO-Dimm and a 160 GB DiamondMax harddisk and souped it up. The HD was seen by the iMac as having 128 GB only but that's no problem, is it?
Shouldn't be. IIRC the older machines' firmware doesn't recognize more than 127GB drives.
Then I tried to install Panther. After partitioning the Maxtor HD (1 x 8 GB and 1 x the rest) both partitions showed up with the red exclamation mark in the installer. Why can't I use the 8 GB partition to install Panther?
Does the iMac have the 8GB limit? I don't think it does. As for the red exclamation mark, sometimes the installer glitches out. Try clicking the back button then re-enter that screen.
Do I have to update the firmware? How do I do it? The iMac has no internet connection at the moment.
I have a USB card-reader with a 256 MB FlashCard. Could I use that for the firmware-update? Download the firmware on my beige to the FlashCard and then connect the card-reader to the iMac? Would it be seen by the iMac when it's started using the Panther installation disk?
I don't know if you NEED to do a firmware upgrade, although I do recall the iMacs having a few. Firmware upgrades are done from OS9. Yes, you can use the Flashcard to get the updater to the iMac, but you'll need to install OS9 on the HD first.
Here's a question that I'll put out for everyone else on your behalf. Can you install OS9 on the Flashcard and have the iMac boot off of it? I can't recall if USB drives are bootable or if that was only for Firewire. If so, would it even boot from a card reader?
-Rob
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