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JCB269 |
03/08/04 |
I installed panther and was having problems so i put in the startup disk and booted up. when the install page loaded i went to disk utilities and erased the hardrive, choosing to zero the data. When I tried to install panther again it asked to choose which disk to install panther on and there was nothing available. What could have happened and how can i fix this? Do I need to create a new partition because right now it is all free space. I did, and when i got to the choose a disk page there was the HD available, but with a big red exclamation point on it and it said that I can't install OS X on that drive. If anyone knows anything to help it would be greatly appreciated, as I am completely without a computer (I am at a i-cafe right now. thanks.
John |
Clarification/Follow-up by xarqi on 03/08/04 4:17 pm:
Weird. Did you choose a strange volume format when you did the erase? Go with HFS+. Maybe it defaulted to UFS and OSX won't go on UFS or something - more research on this needed though.
Clarification/Follow-up by voiceguy2000 on 03/08/04 4:24 pm:
Some earlier Apple models, such as the first G3 PowerBooks, must have a limited partition size for installation of OS X.
Which model are you installing on?
Try using Disk Utilities again and request 2 partitions. Set the lower partition to no larger than 8 GB, the balance to the other one. See if the installer lets you put OS X on that partition.
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