[FrankLW]

Hi all, I bought a new hard drive for my iMac G3 and now I have to install os 9 in order to do a firmwire update and install os X after it.

With my copy of OS 9.2 I tried to install it but I failed. First using the 'C' button, no recognition. Then I used the 'Option'-key while rebooting, which worked. It gave me a blue screen showing a return button and a forward-button, non of them works. (This screen I can get also without any cd...)
Anyone has an idea what's wrong? Is it my cd or are there any other tricks. Do I also need to install the firmwire when I use the PPC version of Ubuntu? Then I can try that

[Chuckit]

Are you sure the CD drive works?

Also, IIRC, PPC Ubuntu doesn't require any special firmware. I'm not 100% on that, though.

[FrankLW]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

Are you sure the CD drive works?

Also, IIRC, PPC Ubuntu doesn't require any special firmware. I'm not 100% on that, though.

It is bizarre. It's a DVD-drive. Is it possible it just doesn't recognise it because he's looking for a cd-rom drive?
Maybe I should burn the cd-image onto a dvd?

[Andrew Stephens]

Doesn't 9.2 require a firmware update too. I seem to remember that older iMacs had to have an update to get from 9.1 to 9.2. You may have to find a copy of 9.1 and install that first, then 9.2 and THEN OS X.

[angelmb]

Andrew is right, I had updated my neighbor's iMac G3 400MHz to 10.4 and I firstly had to update the firmware in order to get 9.2 installed from 9.03. I think this one was the firmware update I had to apply in before of 9.2.