On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, at 09:56 PM, Donald Keenan wrote:
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, at 04:28 PM, chris wrote:
Do I turn/power the iMac on, insert the OS 9 disk and then hold the
'control' and 'c' keys to boot from the CD so that I can wipe the
drive
and then install OS 9?
Don't hold the control, just hold the 'c' key.
Other than that, you are on the right track.
Keep in mind, if it used to work, and now you are getting a flashing ?
that could mean the drive has died.
Well, the good news is that I was able to boot from CD.
The bad news is that I have no idea what I should do now. I
double-clicked on the OS 9.2 icon and it has options for installing
it. Is this the way to wipe and re-install?
I don't see anything called 'Disk Util', but whatever I found under
utilities (Disk Repair, actually) seems greyed out (repair/verify
disk). It's reading the CD and not the hard drive?
I guess I'll try the install folders to see if there's a way to zero
out the hard drive there.
I've tried to use the installer to see if I could wipe the hard drive
that way and it can't find a 'valid destination volume'.
Seems like I am not able to get at the hard drive from my OS 9 disk.
Donald
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