Dear all,
What does this sound like?
Powered up the iMac G4 733 the other day, blinking folder icon and no joy. Currently running 10.2.8. Ultimately had to reinstall from the discs (10.2).

Were these the original disks that came with the machine?

Have: Repaired permissions (twice)
        Repaired HDD (one minor error - repaired)
What am I missing? Much gratefulness for any helpings -
David

It sounds like your install is broken. At that stage I'd probably get everything off the machine, erase the hard drive (with the 'write zeros' option turned on, it'll take a while) and try again with a different set of install disks.

Being paranoid I'd try running memtest as well before doing all that...
<http://www.memtestosx.org/>

Have fun,
Shay
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