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Problems installing OS X on a new hard drive
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2004
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I’m trying to install MAC OS X on a brand new hard drive. It’s a completely empty hard drive.
When I put the CD in to the CD-Rom drive and boot from the CD by pressing C, I can’t seem to get any further than the “Happy Mac” screen.
I’ll turn the computer on, it’ll take about 30 seconds before I get the Happy Mac” screen and the CD sounds like it’s about to start, but the screen almost instantaneously goes blank and computer restarts over again.
BTW, the CD-Rom is a Sony CD Player, and not an original Apple one. Could that be the problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Do you still have the internal CD drive that shipped with your machine, or did you replace it with this Sony drive?
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I don't have the original CD-Rom. The computer came without hard drive and CD Drive. It's an old G3 Beige machine.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Are you trying to install Mac OS X 10.2.8 or earlier?
10.3 and up don't work with beige G3s.
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I'm trying to install Jaguar.
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Posting Junkie
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Are you able to boot from other CDs with the Sony drive?
For example, if you have an OS 9 CD, can you boot from that in the Sony drive?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Allston, MA, USA
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I'm sorry I can't really help you, but I can tell you that I have the same issue with my Beige G3 with the original CD-ROM. Since installing OS X on it, I can't get it to boot off of a CD. Strangely enough it will boot from the CD to install the OS (when I have an OS on it already), but holding down C does not work.
If you google Beige G3 CD-ROM, you will find lots of topics on this, with some suggestions. None worked for me, but maybe you'll be lucky.
The only one I remember offhand is to make sure the CD-ROM is set as master and the only drive on the channel (have the CD-ROM on one channel and the hard drive on the other). Early Beige G3s don't support Master/Slave configurations.
Good luck, the Beige G3 has proven to be a remarkably resiliant machine. I actually have it upgraded to a G4 running 10.3.6 with the latest Security update (thanks to XPostFacto).
-- Jason
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