>Well, I don't think it can be a RAM interleaving problem, because there >is only one RAM chip (128MB). > >I did boot from the OS 9 installation disk and and reformatted from it >prior to trying to install the OS. It was then I got the "cannot install >to this computer" message." I did reformat HFS+. > >I'm beginning to think I should have used FWBs Hard Drive Toolkit or >similar, as I don't think this hard drive is the original Apple drive. > >When the original system folder is reinstalled, it works!
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