can't even start |
October, 05, 2002 8:26 PM |
jozacks |
I can't even begin to load OS X on my computer because I can't get it partitioned! The situation is this: I have a PowerCenter 604/150 (upped to G3/500). There is one hard drive installed (20 GB, non-Apple). I have a Mac OS 9 CD I can boot off, but the zip drive and floppy drive don't work, so I have no way of partitioning the hard drive because if I boot up from it and use SpeedTools off a CD, then the hard drive is the startup volume; if I boot up off the OS 9 CD, I can't partition the hard drive because that would be where I would be loading SpeedTools from. This is what I've tried: 1. Created a disk image and installed OS 9 and SpeedTools and a bunch of other utilities on it. It WON'T BOOT! (but the computer sees it fine when it's already booted off something else.) 2. Took the CD-ROM drive from an 8500 and gave it a SCSI ID not in use, and put it in my PowerCenter. This was in hopes of booting up from the OS 9 CD and then loading SpeedTools from the other CD drive. No luck. Mac OS 9 CD boots from BOTH CD drives, but both times when I load a CD in the other drive (after booted from one) the CD doesn't load. It just sits there. 3. Took the 1.2 GB hard drive (Quantum FireBall 3.5 series) out of the 8500 and put it in my PowerCenter 150. The problem is that it is set to SCSI ID 0 and I can't figure out how to change that. So, it loads but not my 20 GB hard drive, and vice versa. Things I'm still trying: 1. re-burning the homemade startup CD with SpeedTools, using Toast instead of Disk Copy, and also using Disk Copy's conversion to a "CD/DVD volume" 2. searching for information on changing the SCSI ID of either hard drive. 3. thinking about moving my G3/500 card and both CD drives and 20 GB hard drive and USB and FireWire PCI cards and RAM over to my 8500 in case the problem lies in the essence of the PowerCenter. 4. purchasing a new Zip drive, but it will be USB so I'm not counting on it being able to read a zip disk when booted up from the Mac OS 9 CD. If I'm doing anything blatantly stupid, please let me know. And any thoughts on the matter would definitely be appreciated! --Jonathan |
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RE: can't even start |
October, 06, 2002 9:26 AM |
mikael0497 |
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Keep it simple. Use Apple's drivers. Partition your drive. Install 9 on one of the partitions. Drop XPF in that partion. Boot from that partion. Insert the OSX install CD and use XPF to select it as the startup/install disk. Select the partition you want to install X on and go. Assuming you (and XPF) can see your CD drive from OS9... |
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RE: can't even start |
October, 05, 2002 10:23 PM |
kbata |
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Why do you need Speed Tools? |
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RE: can't even start |
October, 05, 2002 9:00 PM |
brfransen |
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Check the drive manufacture's web site for information on how to configure the SCSI ID for that particular drive. Britney |
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