At 7:20 PM +0000 3/6/05, MR TAYLOR wrote:
Hi,this weekend I attempted to install 10.3 onto my iMac Bondi 333Mhz 256Mb Ram with firmware update 1.2. What a frustrating task and I should have known better, in trying to install a 21st century operating system onto a 20th century machine! Never really got past the 1st disk because after the re-start the classic flashing Mac folder and question mark.
What kind of OS X install did you attempt? Installing over a system 9 already on the Mac? Installing on a freshly formatted drive? What is the size of the HD?
So I admitted defeatdecided 'Panther' was not for this machine and went back to 0S 9.2.2 or thought I would?! I have now put 2 different hard drives into the Bondi both with 0S 9 on and to no avail I just get to the folder icon and no further. I have even done a new install of 0S 9 on a freshly formatted hard disk both internal and external (USB) HDD to no avail the iMac won't boot from these HD's, yet it will from the 0S9 install CD.
Try a PRAM reset, usually the first thing to try when you get the "flashing question-mark".
Mary
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