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- Mar 2, 2008
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- Dorset, England
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- MacBook [2.4 GHz Intel, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD], iMac G5 [2.0GHz PPC, 512MB RAM, 500GB HDD]
Okay, iMac G3 333MHz (Rev D.). 20GB hard drive. Blank.
Story is, it was given to my boss by a customer of our shop, with the original 6GB hard disk, and asked him to remove their personal information before "getting rid of it". Knowing I wanted a Mac, my boss gave it to me. Instead of wiping the 6GB drive, he swapped it for a spare 20GB we had lying around.
I was not given the original OS discs, which I believe to have been OS 8.2
I tried installing Panther (10.3.2) from retail discs kindly given to me by a member of the forums. After poking about with trying to get it to boot from CD (turns out it's cmd-shift-option-delete, not c, for this particular Mac) but all I get is a blank screen. Which is only slightly better than the flashing ?/Mac symbol. I left it for a few minutes and came back, but still nothing. Not sure the CD drive is even accessing it during the blank screen phase.
Now, admittedly, I did follow the suggestion my boyfriend gave me of installing it before we've upgraded the RAM from 92MB to either 320MB or 288MB. Might it be disagreeing with the tiny amount of RAM - in which case I'll stop being silly and install it when it's been properly upgraded - or is this an unrelated problem?
Story is, it was given to my boss by a customer of our shop, with the original 6GB hard disk, and asked him to remove their personal information before "getting rid of it". Knowing I wanted a Mac, my boss gave it to me. Instead of wiping the 6GB drive, he swapped it for a spare 20GB we had lying around.
I was not given the original OS discs, which I believe to have been OS 8.2
I tried installing Panther (10.3.2) from retail discs kindly given to me by a member of the forums. After poking about with trying to get it to boot from CD (turns out it's cmd-shift-option-delete, not c, for this particular Mac) but all I get is a blank screen. Which is only slightly better than the flashing ?/Mac symbol. I left it for a few minutes and came back, but still nothing. Not sure the CD drive is even accessing it during the blank screen phase.
Now, admittedly, I did follow the suggestion my boyfriend gave me of installing it before we've upgraded the RAM from 92MB to either 320MB or 288MB. Might it be disagreeing with the tiny amount of RAM - in which case I'll stop being silly and install it when it's been properly upgraded - or is this an unrelated problem?