Install disk doesn't boot

[Cian Duffy]

Not if its Beige its not. If is a B+W it is, but the Beige G3's were
OW, and I'd have expected him to say it was a B+W if it was a B+W.

Cian


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:47:43 +0000, Peter Danckwerts
<peter at danckwerts.com> wrote:
> No, it's New World
> Peter Danckwerts
> 50 Albert Rd
> Richmond
> Surrey TW10 6DP
> 
> Tel. (Home): 020 8940 8087
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> 
> 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 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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