I finally got it to boot from a CD and fixed the hard drive. I
figured that for whatever reason the retail 9.0.4 CD didn't have the
correct files the iMac needed. Same for the 9.1 boot CD I had burned.
I had set up the image and upgraded it to 9.1 on my 7600. I tried
moving some files from the iMac System folder to a copy of my 9.1
image that I thought might be the missing components. I did that
twice and reburned CDs but the iMac would still not boot. So then I
copied the 9.1 image to the iMac, copied the 9.2.1 updater to the
iMac , mounted the image and updated that image to 9.2.1 on the iMac,
moved the new image back to the 7600 and burned a bootable CD that
had my repair utilities on it and used THAT to reboot my iMac and
fixed the hard drive.
QUESTION: Is there no longer any capability to create universal
installs with 9.0.4 and above? It seems like from my experience that
the installer tailors the install to the machine you are doing it on.
I certainly looked and could not find any way to customize the
install to be universal.
I hope to find some time next week to play around with the iMac and
see how much faster it "feels" with real world usage compared to my
G3 upgraded 7600. I got what I think was a slightly good deal on it
but not a great deal. I am quite nervous about committing $$$ and
time to a computer that has limited expandability. I still may turn
around and sell it hopefully for at least what I have in it and save
my pennies for a desktop G3 or G4.
Thanks for the help you all provided.
Brian
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Brian Braunschweiger
"Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to heaven. Only God
can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are his enemies, can go to heaven."
- L.S. Chafer
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