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flashing question on floppy disk
Name: joseph Date: June 7, 2003 at 13:10:23 Pacific OS: 9 i think CPU/Ram: 333 mhz/ 384mb
Comment:
Hello i just a got a 2 power macs G3 from a friend for free, Well anyways they don't boot all the way when i push the power button on it it comes on but then nothing a just a question mark blanking over what seems to be a floppy disk on thew screen I tried running the mac OS X "don't know if its full or upgrade disk" disk that s from a G4 on it by hold C button when booting but it does reboot off the cd. So what should I do stop being cheap and go buy the MAC 10.2 Disk from CompUSA and let them install the OS, or is it something real simple and I don't know what I am doing.
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