Re: beige g3 stopped responding (firmware problem?)
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:46:43PM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote:
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> --- Chris Tillman <tillman@voicetrak.com> wrote:
> > It sounds like you don't have a MacOS CD. Even if you were to get a
> > floppy system to boot, you'd need an installation CD, or some way of
> > accessing the installation software. Just copying the system software
> > from the MacOS floppy is not likely to work.
>
> Its definitly a mac os cd, it booted and wanted to start the
> instelation, but I couldn't mount the disk so I tried to make the disk
> tool floppy which ruined the firmware (I am guessing) somehow.
> >
Oh, then you should be all right, just go ahead and re-install MacOS.
There may be a choice for 'Minimum Installation' you can select.
I think it may indeed have to re-initialize the disk, because when
wiping it out during your Linux install, you probably also wiped out
the disk driver partitions that MacOS needs, so it will need to
re-install those.
> > > and is there a way to install mac os 8.1 without wiping the whole
> > disk
> > > in the process?
Since you haven't ever gotten Linux booted, you haven't really
finished your installation anyway. Just get ready to reinstall Linux
after you're done with MacOS. You can make it easier on yourself if
you go ahead and allocate space for Linux before/during the MacOS
install. Instead of accepting the default of MacOS taking up the
whole disk, make the MacOS partition say 40-50M and leave the rest
unpartitioned.
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