eovnu87435ds Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Hey everybody, I have a bit of an oddball question for someone who has been working with macs for quite a long time. I have a tangerine clamshell iBook g3 that I am trying to resurrect. I started by loading mac os 9.2.2 onto the ibook, and was about to load 10.3, when I realized it would leave me with only 20 MB of space left, So I bought and installed a 40gb toshiba apple branded hard drive. I popped in the 10.3 disc(the universal one, not machine specific), formatted the harddrive, and started to install. I came back to my iBook to see a screen that had said the install has failed, and to retry the installation. just turn it off for the night, and went to sleep. The next morning, when I went to boot from the CD, I was met with a floppy disk and a flashing question mark. Uh oh... I tried holding the option key, and when I do, I see an icon of the finder face with a CD(presumably the install disc) but when I choose to boot from it, i get the question mark back. I tried the 9.2.2 cd, with the same results. I tried zapping the PRAM, NVRAM, and all that fun stuff, but to no avail. I even tried resetting the open firmware to it's defaults, and still I have no luck. I am thinking I might have some luck If I can set the boot-device parameter to whatever points to the CD-ROM, but I don't know what does. Other than that, I am quite clueless on what to try next. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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