XPostFacto is your best bet. Those discs you are using may well be machine specific (from the oops! dept.). The HDD drivers and the IDE bus can be confused (see the recent discussion on 'crippled' ATTO cards and such). Best, George
--- John Wisor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I spent the better part of this weekend attempting a > fresh install of 10.2 on a beige G3 233, 640 RAM, > 40 mb ATA. What I am left with at this time is a > machine that will > not boot in either X, OS 9.1, or via OS 10.2, 9.0, > 9.2, 8.0, Norton, or G3 start up CD's. An 8.0 > starter up floppy is read by the machine, but > elicits the message that this > start up disk can not be used with this mac. > > The installed 9.1 freezes early on with extensions > on or off. Even though I completely erased the OS > 10.2 partition with Disk Tools, I get the OS 10 > white screen that > just sits doing nothing. None of the installer CD's > boot even with the press of "C" on the keyboard at > start up. Attempts to zap pram on start up fail. > With one > exception all attempts at installing 10.2 with the > installer ended in "sleep" or a freeze up. The one > time that the 10.2 installed correctly without > sleeping elicited what > appeared to be a good installation, but the classic > mode did not boot and after exhausting other methods > of fixing the OS 9 system I decided to attempt to > reinstall a clean > OS 10.2. > > In reading this list's archives I noted some > suggestion that pram issues may be causing some of > the problems. > > My main questions: > > Are there other ways of zapping the pram if the > keyboard does not work or you can't boot anything > up? > Does a G3 floppy start up disk exist? > Are there any good ways of preventing G3 sleep > during install other than changing energy saver > control panels, moving the mouse constantly, or > deleting energy saver > preferences? > > At this point I would be just happy to be able to > reformat everything and do a clean insall of OS 9. > > Thanks John > ===== /'\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards Love your neighbour as yourself. (from Luke 10:27) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
