At 8:16 AM -0500 1/20/2003, Alexander Cohen wrote: >Hello, > >I have the latest OSX installed on my computer, it's been there for >about a month. Now i want to install OS8.5 onto another partiton, but i >can't for the life of me get my computer to boot off the OS8.5 install >CD. I've tried everything. Zapping the pram, removing all hard drives >and booting from the CD, removing the battery for while, putting it >back and booting from CD. Is there any reason i should not be able to >boot off an install CD? What can make this happen? I tried putting the >CD in and switching the startup disk to it, but it just reverts back. I >even copied all of the install cd contents to an empty partition and >tried to boot off that partiton, but the computer always switches back >to the OSX partiton to boot off of. I know the install CD is good and >bootable, i can use it to boot in another mac. Please help!!!!! > >The computer is a blue and white G3.
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