Install disk doesn't boot

[Peter Danckwerts]

Could well be incompatible hardware. I installed YDL 4 onto my laptop 
without trouble but it doesn't like my desktop G4 one little bit.

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On 16 Jan 2005, at 14:03, Marcellus Earl wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> Another real newbie! I bought YDL 4.0 on cd's and tried to boot the 
> install disk. Failure. I tried holding down the C key and it didn't 
> work although it was clear my machine was trying it's best to boot 
> from it. I tried holding down the option key. Again, no success.
> The machine I'm working with is a Power Mac G3/300 Tower model, 300 
> MHz, 20 gig hard drive, 512 MB memory. I tried booting while OS X was 
> on it. I even uninstalled it and tried to boot with a newly 
> initialized hard drive. Didn't work.
>  
> Do I have a defective disk, or incompatible hardware, or am I just 
> plain ignorant of the right way to boot the disk? What do you advise?
>  
> Marcellus Earl
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