Name: quickbrwnfox Date: January 29, 2007 at 16:50:40 Pacific Subject: help installing OS X OS: os x 10.1 CPU/Ram: g3 196mb Model/Manufacturer: g3 iMac
Comment:
i upgraded my HD to a bigger drive and tried installing OS X 10.1 by pressing "c" while it boots but to no avail nothing seems to happen. all i see is the folder with the "?" and smiley face on the other side that blinks. Please help me out thanks
Try particioning the hard drive into 2 parts the 1st 1/2 must be under 8 Gigs install your system there also anything larger than 120 Gigs won't be recognized
That's just it, you have to be able to boot from an installation CD before you can partition the drive. That's why his suggestion is not a solution to you problem, there is no problem with having OS X on a less than 8G partition as you don't having anything installed.
I'm guessing there is something wrong with the install CD you have, do you have another install disc you can try?
I'm having the same EXACT problem. I can install WINDOWS on my MACBOOK PRO, But I can't Boot from the Tiger OSX install DVD. PLEASE HELP!!! I've had this problem for 2 Months now!!!
When I hold down the option key while booting, the only drive option that comes up is the "windows xp" partition. Nothing else. It doesn't recognize the Tiger OS X DVD. I've even installed 'Transmac' and 'Macdrive' via external floppy drive in hopes to format part of the hard drive.Still no luck.
I'm guessing that if your Mac isn't recognizing the disc, the disc is possibly bad. Does it have any visible scratches on it? or smudges? Do you know anybody with a different Tiger disc you could borrow? or somebody with a Mac that you could try your disc in to prove that the disc is good/bad?
You can't get the machine to boot into the OS X installed on the hard drive?
Tiger is BRAND NEW out of the box from CompUSA. And nobody that I know knows anything about a MAC. I am determined this has to be something easily resolved. Jumper pins? Please elaborate on that because it's very possible they are not. * And thank so much everyone for the quick responses!
Liz, I think the question about jumper pins was in response to the original poster's question.
"Tiger is brand new out of the box from CompUSA"? Your MacBook Pro should have come with Tiger preloaded and it's own copy of it, why did you buy a Tiger install disc from CompUSA? Hows old is the MacBook Pro? Did you install BootCamp and Windows XP or did someone else? Did they have problems during that installation?
I purchase my MBP in April '06, My case with all of my software and peripherals and work was stolen from the gym. - I bought a new battery charger and had no problems until the EFI FIRMWARE UPDATE that was not successful. So, after reading many forums I still had nothing but a grey screen with the spinning pinwheel. So I bought a brand new TIGER OS X. No luck. I could only start up in single user mode and verbose. No luck. So then I bought a NEW HARD DRIVE assuming my old one was fried which brings me here.
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