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Can't install Panther on Indigo iMac 400?
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Portland, ME, USA
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Having backed up all the files from the old OS 9 system, I decided to give Panther a try on this machine. 10GB HD, and I've upgraded the RAM to 256MB. The thing is, when I put in the first Panther install disc, the machine starts booting and gets to the gray Apple logo screen with the spinning circle, and then just stops. I figured this thing was just ridiculously slow, so I left it going overnight. I came back the next morning, still at the spinning circle and gray Apple logo. Is the CD drive just bad or has this happened to anyone else? What should I do?
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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You'll most likely have to update the firmware. I have Panther running on my Indigo iMac (1gb ram) and it's very quick.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Of course, check the firmware.
Since your machine still works, it's not likely that the firmware is the problem.
Boot the machine holding down the option key. Click on the CD. Hold down command-v. Click on the arrow telling the system to boot. Keep holding down command-v until the screen turns black with white text. If the system stops somewhere or repeats the same text over and over again, that would be an indication of what might be going on.
BTW, the same holds true for any system that just sticks at the spinning lines. This is called verbose mode.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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It might be your RAM too. I had a stick of RAM that worked fine under Mac OS 9. I reinstalled Mac OS 9 with that stick of RAM in and it went smoothly. But when I went to put Mac OS 10.2 and later Panther on the same iMac and with that same stick of RAM it wouldn't work. It would do what yours is doing, just sit there with the spinning beach ball. I then got to thinking why would this happen if everything worked just fine under Mac OS 9 and not Mac OS X. Just on a hunch I took out one stick of RAM that was 32MB and put a 128MB stick of RAM in it's place and tried to install Mac OS X Panther again and what do you know it worked. Good thing I had that extra 128MB stick laying around. I then put the 32MB stick back in and tried to do a reinstall (just to confirm it was the RAM) but it wouldn't work again. So I took the 32MB stick out and put the 128MB back in and called it good.
I should've put the 128MB stick in when I was still running Mac OS 9 on the iMac but I never got around to it until I went to install Mac OS X. That would've made things a lot easiser if that 32MB stick was already out and the 128MB installed before I tried to install Mac OS X.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Are you using burned cd-r media to install panther?
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Join Date: May 2004
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I think ur problem could b your hd(only 10gig) and ur ram
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TALK2U Soon
Angus Pohl
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South Afica
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Originally posted by Talk2Angus:
I think ur problem could b your hd(only 10gig) and ur ram
or not
I use the same configuration
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