[G4] Wanted - MDD FW 400 system install disks

[Paul]

Ronald,

thanks for your post / email.

I acquired this computer last week - as you can imagine, this means it 
already had the previous owners stuff on the drive. I certainly did NOT 
do a full reformat that takes several hours - rather I did one of the 
quick erases that takes a few seconds and then installed my version 
10.2. But I can assure you, I definitely checked the install OS 9 
drivers box. I have installed various flavours of 10.2 / 10.3 on that 
many computers, that it has become second nature to check this box.

I will try your solution and see how I go. Although I’m not too 
thrilled about re formatting a 120GB drive - you might hear from me in 
2010.

Thanks
Paul


On 04/03/2008, at 12:05 PM, Ronald Steinke wrote:

> On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Paul wrote:
>
>> I also have a retail version of OS 9.2.1 - I have tried this, but 
>> whilst the computer allows me to boot off this CD, once booted it 
>> does not see the drive or any of the volumes. This isn’t the case 
>> with (for example) the original CD for the PowerBook G4 800 Mhz (Mac 
>> OS 9.2.2), which allows me to boot and it sees all 4 volumes, but 
>> won’t allow me to install.
>
>  From my personal experience, the situation you describe is what 
> happened when I DID NOT check the box to install OS-9 drivers on a 
> hard drive and then installed OS-X.x first. When I attempted to do a 
> "Clean Install" of OS-9 from a factory install CD v 9.2.1, the machine 
> would not recognize the drive at all. The machine would boot to the 
> OS-9.2.1 CD, but not allow any installation.
>
> IMHO, this appears to me to duplicate your main problem.
>
> My ultimate solution was to reformat the drive completely and verify 
> that the box was definitely checked to install the OS-9 drivers. Then, 
> I installed the OS-X.x and was able to do a "Clean Install" of 
> OS-9.2.1 without any further problem.
>
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