[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Check your CD drive. Make sure it's the original Apple CD drive that
> came with your G3 and not an aftermarket one. You cannot install /
> boot from am OSX disk using anything but a stock Apple drive on the
> beige. The only way to get it to boot off OS9.2 is to zap the PRAM on
> the reboot(option+apple+P+R).

Did that. It's a 12X Apple-labeled SCSI CD drive. And it DOES boot off
the OSX CD the first time, since I can, (as stated in the original
message) *install* OS X on it, the problem is happening after the
Installer attepts to reboot the system after going through the first OSX
install disk.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs




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