>Hello,
>This is my last effort to install OS X on an external drive of my
>PowerMac 8500. I formatted the external drive with Apple utility, and
>used XPostFacto 2.2b4 as instructed.
>However, when the computer tries to reboot, it gives me a screen full
>of words instead of the Mac OS X installer. Ryan Rempel doesn't have
>an answer. If no one out there has an answer, then I shall have to
>give up trying.
>Thanks
>
>Wilton Shaw
>

Did you do a custom install???

I had the problem you describe with my 8500 until I let the installer do
the Default installation. (everything)
The other problem I had was that the system would not boot after the
installation until I put a stock Apple CD-ROM drive back in the machine.

Aloha, Ken

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