At 4:02 PM -0500 4/5/03, John Ryan wrote:
>To all those more learned in Mac than Me:
> I have a 5300c that I just upped the ram to 64Meg and put a 6 gig hard
>drive in. Now the problem. I had the 6 gig in an external USB housing. I
>hooked the external drive to my ibook and essentially copied the entire cd
>onto the drive. Installed the drive in my 5300c and started it up. I get
>just past the smiling mac icon and get an error saying the OS will only
>operate on the original media. How do I install an OS on the new drive.
>SCSI Disk is not an option. Don't have a scsi port on my ibook.
>Tried to install from the CD onto the USB drive but it would not allow me
>to.
>All advice is extremely welcome
>Thanks
>John Ryan
SCSI CD-ROMs are pretty cheap, now. Isn't that the best way to go?
Paul
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