On Sep 22, 7:12 pm, "Dan A. Currie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Davis wrote:
> > On Sep 22, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Stro wrote:
>
> >> On Sep 22, 5:56 pm, "Dan A. Currie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> Stro wrote:
>
> >>>> Greetings,
> >>>> I have a beige g3 desktop that I am trying to put a larger hard
> >>>> drive in. I can get the g3 to see the hd when I start up with
> >>>> the os9
> >>>> cd and it formats. No errors, everything normal. OS 9 will
> >>>> install,
> >>>> but when I try to restart all I get is a blank screen. The startup
> >>>> chime plays, but nothing on the screen. The monitor works when I
> >>>> start up from the cd. Any suggestions.
>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Lee
>
> >>> Exactly how large is the new drive? You might want to partition it
> >>> and
> >>> make the 1st partition about 10GB and divide the test. Mine has HD,
> >>> Documents, Utilities and Storage.
>
> >>> Dan Currie
>
> >> It is a 40gb hd. It has two partitions, one is 7.5gb.
>
> >> Lee
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>
> > 40 GB isn't getting close to any size limitation problems.
> > Did you do the formatting using the OS9 install media?
> > Were the OS9 drivers installed?
>
> > Chuck D.
>
> I agree about the size but you might want to reformat for possible OSX
> installation at a later date. I think the 1st partition has to be
> greater than 9GB.
>
> Recheck your partitioning and installation, possibly do a Clean Install
> and try again. BTW wat is your G3?
>
> Dan
I used the OS 9.2.1 cd to format and to do the install. Everything
proceeded normally during the install. But no start from the hd.
BTW Dan, to install OSX, the 1st partition has to be less than 8GB.
And the machine is a beige g3, 266 mhz processor, 768mb ram.
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