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as a couple of you may remember, i'm helping a friend upgrade his beige G3. he's finally gotten a decent usb cd drive, and now we're going to upgrade to X. except...
none of my OS X install discs work. i have install discs for 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2. insert a disc, they load up just fine, but clicking "restart to start the installation" doesn't do anything. i read the OS X install readme, it says you can also start up off an install disc, by either holding C while starting up with the disc inserted, or choosing the install disc as your startup disk. but neither of these work, either. once i hit restart, the drive spits the install disc out, and even if i reinsert it, only OS 9 starts up.
i'm thinking this might be because i have to use an external usb drive....but i have no other choice, the internal cd drive is broken.
any ideas on how i can work with this and get X installed? all his system software (OS 9) is up to date...the installer readme mentions a firmware update, but as far as i know that doesn't exist for the biege. any suggestions would be appreciated.
none of my OS X install discs work. i have install discs for 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2. insert a disc, they load up just fine, but clicking "restart to start the installation" doesn't do anything. i read the OS X install readme, it says you can also start up off an install disc, by either holding C while starting up with the disc inserted, or choosing the install disc as your startup disk. but neither of these work, either. once i hit restart, the drive spits the install disc out, and even if i reinsert it, only OS 9 starts up.
i'm thinking this might be because i have to use an external usb drive....but i have no other choice, the internal cd drive is broken.
any ideas on how i can work with this and get X installed? all his system software (OS 9) is up to date...the installer readme mentions a firmware update, but as far as i know that doesn't exist for the biege. any suggestions would be appreciated.