on 4/5/03 6:02 PM, Paul Nelson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 4:02 PM -0500 4/5/03, John Ryan wrote: >> To all those more learned in Mac than Me: >> I have a 5300c that I just upped the ram to 64Meg and put a 6 gig hard >> drive in. Now the problem. I had the 6 gig in an external USB housing. I >> hooked the external drive to my ibook and essentially copied the entire cd >> onto the drive. Installed the drive in my 5300c and started it up. I get >> just past the smiling mac icon and get an error saying the OS will only >> operate on the original media. How do I install an OS on the new drive. >> SCSI Disk is not an option. Don't have a scsi port on my ibook. >> Tried to install from the CD onto the USB drive but it would not allow me >> to. >> All advice is extremely welcome >> Thanks >> John Ryan > > SCSI CD-ROMs are pretty cheap, now. Isn't that the best way to go? > Paul > > I guess that would work-the only problem is that the 6 gig drive I put in has no OS on it. I have a SCSI CD drive. How would the SCSI CD drive work? There would be no drivers available for it. John
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