Install disk doesn't boot

[Peter Danckwerts]

No, it's New World
Peter Danckwerts
50 Albert Rd
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Surrey TW10 6DP

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On 19 Jan 2005, at 19:05, Andrew wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:21:38 +0000
> Peter Danckwerts <peter at tigerofthestripe.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Isnt it an OldWorld machine? If so, my bet is you'll have to use a 
> bootloader like BootX, quik or miboot.
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Peter Danckwerts
>> 50 Albert Rd
>> Richmond
>> Surrey TW10 6DP
>>
>> Tel. (Home): 020 8940 8087
>> peter at danckwerts.com
>> http://www.danckwerts.com
>>
>> Now Out!: The Bibliomania or Book-Madness
>> by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
>> 'a usefully annotated edition' - Financial Times
>>
>> see http://www.tigerofthestripe.co.uk
>> 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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