[G4] installin os9

[James Asherman]

On May 31, 2006, at 5:03 PM, cerebus DaPope wrote:

> my hard drive is set to master, but i'm guessing that it needs to  
> be formatted for mac, and apparently the os does not do this on a  
> clean install

Clean install is a specific term . not applicable here.

>
> is there a way to format the disk corectly if their is no access to  
> another mac?

You should reset the "cuda" reset switch on the mother board . hold  
it down for 30 seconds.
You might want to switch to lesser monitor to get this going.
  You should boot up from your OS9 CD. Hold the C key till you see a  
desktop background.
Use the harddisk tools that are present in the CD boot to format your  
drive.
Then install the OS, still booted from the CD, to the newly  
frormatted HD.


>
> and should this corect my problem?
Should
>
> what if i use windows to de-partition my drive, can os9 work from  
> there?

Worst thing you could do.  different formats.