Guys,
I am looking to do a fresh install on my eMac, and seem to have hit a wall!
I have just fitted my eMac with a new Super Drive (Pioneer) and a WD 200GB Hard Disk, the Superdrive is Master, and the Hard Disk is on CS (the previous Combi/40GB setup had both drive on CS, but I read somewhere that the Super Drive needs to be on Master to boot disks).
I am messing around with a Leopard disk image until I can lay my hands on the two discs that apparently came with the eMac, but won't get them for a couple of days.
When I boot the eMac with no DVD in the drive, I get a blue flashing folder with question mark and the Mac face, if I use the image I burnt on my PC, using TransMac, it spins up and goes so far, I then get a grey screen telling me that my machine needs to be restarted, and I can get no further than this.
I still only have the 256MB in there which came with the machine when I got it last week, I have ordered a couple of 1GB sticks, is the low amount of RAM what is causing the problem, or is it the fact I burnt the DMG file on a PC under TransMac?
Failing all the above, do I just need those discs that came with the machine???
Cheers,
Paul
I am looking to do a fresh install on my eMac, and seem to have hit a wall!
I have just fitted my eMac with a new Super Drive (Pioneer) and a WD 200GB Hard Disk, the Superdrive is Master, and the Hard Disk is on CS (the previous Combi/40GB setup had both drive on CS, but I read somewhere that the Super Drive needs to be on Master to boot disks).
I am messing around with a Leopard disk image until I can lay my hands on the two discs that apparently came with the eMac, but won't get them for a couple of days.
When I boot the eMac with no DVD in the drive, I get a blue flashing folder with question mark and the Mac face, if I use the image I burnt on my PC, using TransMac, it spins up and goes so far, I then get a grey screen telling me that my machine needs to be restarted, and I can get no further than this.
I still only have the 256MB in there which came with the machine when I got it last week, I have ordered a couple of 1GB sticks, is the low amount of RAM what is causing the problem, or is it the fact I burnt the DMG file on a PC under TransMac?
Failing all the above, do I just need those discs that came with the machine???
Cheers,
Paul