Hi Beth, Below is an Applecare Knowledgebase document that details many of the factors you need to be looking at in an attempt to resolve your problem.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106692#Before Terry's advice is a little off the mark. I had to research this as I could not exactly remember the specifics either. They read as follows: Installing on an original Power Macintosh G3, or an iMac If you install Mac OS X on an original Power Macintosh G3 (Beige), or an iMac with a CD drive tray (Rev. A, Rev. B, Rev. C, or Rev. D), be sure to install Mac OS X on a disk partition that is completely within the first 8 GB of the disk. If your hard disk is larger than 8 GB and it is not partitioned or the first partition is larger than 8 GB, you will need to reformat and partition your disk so that the first partition is less than 8 GB. In a nutshell, cpus without firewire ports fall into the category referred to above. You can disregard the above with any firewire equipped cpus. Pre-Jaguar or not, the basic principles of formatting/partitioning/OS installation have not changed. Ward Oldham on 11/1/2002 12:02 PM, Terry Bohach at terryb at mac.com wrote: > OSX wants/needs to be installed in the first 8gb of the drive. > > Here is the partition that I have: > > OSX > Classic > Apps (Where most apps go) > Files > Swap... > > There is a way to install OSX on just on system and make a image of it. > I have seen it on www.macosxhints.com. > > Here is another place to look: > http://homepage.mac.com/remsoftware/applescript.html > > > If you like I have a PDF that I got sometime back that talks about the > install and partitions. > > Terry > > On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 09:51 AM, Beth Ernst wrote: > >> Hi gang, I'm in need of some advice. We just purchased 5 new G4s. I'm >> wanting to make separate partitions for OS 9 and OS X. I've tried >> reformatting the drive and on my initial attempt the machine appeared >> to lock up (that was yesterday afternoon, I thought maybe it was just >> taking a while, but I came in this morning and it was still sitting >> there. So I rebooted and tried again and was able to get my >> partitions. I then proceeded to attempt to install OS X. I received an >> error message that the installation failed. When I tried again, the >> partition I was attempting to install on didn't mount. At this point >> I'm thinking maybe I need to install OS 9 first so I'm going to try >> that, but can someone tell me the recommended steps for doing this? I >> had some info from Apple's site, but it was pre-Jaguar. >> >> Thanks! >> Beth >> >> >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >> >> > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021101/29f1dc8e/attachment.html
