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Install issue - OS 9 on SCSI Drive
Name: ok Date: February 13, 2006 at 12:25:28 Pacific OS: OS 9 CPU/Ram: 9600 / 256 Product: PowerMac 9600
Comment:
Please help! A friend of mine has a Power Mac 9600 w/ a Sonnet Crescendo card. He asked me if I could help him out with the installation of a new hard drive and OS install. The old hard drive is no longer usable. I am tying to install OS 9 on a new SCSI drive. This is the only hard drive in the machine. It is terminated correctly. I am using the 9.0 apple install disk. Everything starts ok, but then I get the following error message: Problems were encountered reading the “Source file installation tome” installation cannot continue. Other than trash the machine or give up, anyone know a solution or work around for this issue? Thank you -
Name: bofra Date: February 13, 2006 at 15:21:50 Pacific
Reply:
check cd install disc, and cd reader, to be cleaned, check connections/wires, try again... is drive formatted hfs+
try different cd reader to install with,
:)
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Response Number 2
Name: forevermac Date: February 15, 2006 at 13:01:36 Pacific
Reply:
That will without a doubt be either: The cdrom drive or the CD itself. It's not the mac as it does see the cd and it's already formatted the hard drive.
Rgds
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