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imac nee dhelp booting
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ok, i got a imac 333... mhz for 20$ at a garage sale, the mac os 8.6 gives me a draglib-setdrag image error saying to insert the boot disk, i do not have the mac boot disk that came with it, i got a mac osx 10.2 boot cd, but i can get to boot to install it, can anyone help me?
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Is this a slot-load iMac? Do you know if it has the latest firmware? (4.1.9f is vital for these if you are going to boot from 10.2 or later) Do you have an OS 9 boot CD? Do you know how much RAM it has? Does it have Firewire? Do you have another Mac?
We either need a lot more info, or you need something in addition.
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ya slot load i think, you can just pop the cd in no need to open a drive, dont know about frimware will check. ram idk ill rip it open and check, no no os9 cd thats why im terying to put 10.02 on it, the only mac os we have in the house
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if you boot holding down command-option-o-f, that will boot you into open firmware, which puts the ROM version on the screen by default. If you don't see 4.1.9f, you need a firmware upgrade, so you'll need 9.1 installed before you try 10.2 anyway. If you do see 4.1.9f, you shouldn't have any problems booting into 10.2. I think you have to have a minimum of 64MB to boot, but that would still be a nightmare. You realistically would want at least 256MB.
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i cant just do a clean 10.02 install?
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Originally Posted by adan
i cant just do a clean 10.02 install?
You can if you have the correct firmware version.
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"Another classic science-fiction show cancelled before its time" ~ Bender
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Originally Posted by adan
i cant just do a clean 10.02 install?
Is it 10.0.2 or 10.2.0? If it's 10.0.2, you don't want to run it anyway. If it's 10.2.0, you have to make sure you have the newest firmware before you even attempt to boot the thing. You can have serious logic board up to and including requiring replacing the logic board if you don't do this first. A dead logic board is very unlikely, but bad video happens pretty frequently. Also, rebooting into OS 9 doesn't fix it--but installing the firmware update does.
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