Eeeh, so, this is a weird one. So I received Panther via FedEx at about 1pm Pacific. Woohoo!! Way to go Apple and FedEx. The FedEx guy was so excited he stayed and chatted with me for five minutes about how cool Panther is going to be. He's going to stop by when he can to see how it went. Wow, what a great start to the day.
Well, I have the family pack, I installed it on our PowerBooks Pismo (400mhz/640 ram) and it was flaweless. It took about an hour and a half but the system itself is awesome. A little draggy in the animation so far but anyway, flawless install
Next, on to my TiBook 800. I put in the CD, pressed install, rebooted and boom, it put me into open firmware! Then I was stuck, I had to reboot the mac, tried holding down "C" key, nothing, the CD would just eject. Tried install again, it put me into open firmware again! I repeated this about five times, I was getting pretty sad and desperate and the sixth time it finally worked, it didn't reboot me into open firmware and it just booted.
Now, I'm familiar with open firmware/nvram tuning and what that all means. But if I wasn't, I think I'd be pretty freaked out! And, to add to it, there really is no mention of what to do, but reboot via the open firmware command line (or the old cold reboot).
I have found no reference to this anywhere so far. The TiBook is pretty much stock, no partitions or modifications or anything. Weird stuff.
If this happens to anyone else, just rest assured that if you try enough times, it will probably work, and your system isn't going to get messed up even though open firmware looks pretty weird :-)
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