OSX restore - help

[Duane Winner]

Actually, the OS9 Installation CD is the only boot CD (besides YellowDog) that 
seems to get me anywhere. I booted with the OS9 CD, and ran the disk 
utillity, and actually was able to create a new partition.

But apparantly, the OSX CD still didn't like that (kernel panic again).

I'm totally unfamiliar with Mac paritioning schematics. Is there a basic disk 
configuration I should try to set up? What paritition types should I create 
and how many? How does Apple traditionally partition these disks when they 
ship them out with OSX?

Like an idiot, I didn't write any important information down (like the 
partition table) before I started to slash and burn with the Yellowdog CD.



On Tuesday 08 July 2003 12:14, Grant Lenahan wrote:
> I'm nto sure why you get the kernel panic booting from the OSX CD, but it
> may be looking for a valid volumeto install OSX to...  never been there.
>
> Have you tried booting from your OS9 CD?  If that works, you can then use
> drive setup to format the disk, and then re-sinatll or "restore" whatever
> you want.
>
> Grant
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I don't know much about macs, but I have one here (Powerbook G4) and a
>
> couple
>
> > of months ago threw YellowDog on it, then never did much with it.
> >
> > But now I have to put OSX back on, and I'm screwed. I tried to boot with
>
> the
>
> > Software Restore CD, but that just comes up and tells me to pick a disk
> > to restore to and my only options are 'Restore Image' and the CDROM.
> >
> > I tried to boot with the OSX installation CD, but then I get a kernel
>
> panic.
>
> > All I want to do is get OSX and all the software that was on there as it
>
> came
>
> > in the box from the Apple Fun Factory.
> >
> > Could somebody please tell me what to do? Thanks so much!
>
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