[Cube] OS 9 installer can't see Cube disk (formatted for Panther)

Riba riba at ml1.net
Thu Mar 16 00:00:30 PST 2006


Hello Andrew,

> The cube will boot to the CD and the installer runs fine but when  
> you get to the point where you select the hard drive to install to  
> there are no drives to select.
>
> I'm guessing that since I formatted the drive when I installed  
> Panther it's a format that OS 9  can't read.
>
> "Get Info" reports that it's "Mac OS Extended (journaled) which is  
> the same as the Pismo.
> System Profiler shows both Cube and Pismo as "File System:  
> Journaled HFS+"
>
> What am I missing?
> Is it too late to install Classic?

When you formatted this drive, you probably did not choose an option  
to "Install OS9 drivers" on it. OS 9 cannot boot off a drive that  
does not have these drivers installed.


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