At 12:34 AM -0500 01/14/2006, Trinette wrote:
Ok I bought iMac restore CD's on Ebay for $25 thinking I could install OS 9.2 back on my iMac G3 350(slot load). I originally had OS 9.2 but formatted the drive awhile ago and run Ubuntu. I want to take Ubuntu off and reinstall OS 9.2 from the restore CD's,but the option to restore is greyed out intirely. I'm lost! I don't want to go and buy more CD's just to install OS 9.2 but I feel like I wasted my money on the wrong CD's! I don't have any install CD's just 4 restore CD's for the iMac I bought.
If all that was/is on the HD is Ubuntu, then perhaps the restore CD doesn't like the driver on the HD (it's not OS X's HFS+ driver), and/or its sector layout (*). So try re-initializing the drive first.
(*) Not sure about Ubuntu specifically, but the default for many *nix flavours is to use 2 KB sectors, whereas Apple uses 512 KB for HFS+.
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