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10.4.11 update problem - reinstalled OS X 10.4 & now I can't install some software
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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 547489"><p>A rotating image of the earth? Sounds like it's looking for its startup system on a network. </p><p></p><p>It's not clear to me what you have done after the erase of the internal hard drive, only that the <em>C</em> and <em>Option</em> keys do not work. Did you attempt installing an operating system? If so which one? OS 9 or OS X Tiger 10.4.x?</p><p></p><p>If you DO have an operating system istalled: do you still have your FireWire or a network cable connected? If so, disconnect the cable(s), reboot holding down the Option key so it finds another system to boot from and choose in the Startup Disk the internal hard drive.</p><p></p><p>If you don't have an operating system installed, your iMac cannot start up at all. You need to install something here. </p><p></p><p>Also, I wonder if the Tiger OS install disk you used is a retail full install (black CDs or DVD) or a restore disk that came from another Mac (grey CDs or DVD).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 547489"] A rotating image of the earth? Sounds like it's looking for its startup system on a network. It's not clear to me what you have done after the erase of the internal hard drive, only that the [I]C[/I] and [I]Option[/I] keys do not work. Did you attempt installing an operating system? If so which one? OS 9 or OS X Tiger 10.4.x? If you DO have an operating system istalled: do you still have your FireWire or a network cable connected? If so, disconnect the cable(s), reboot holding down the Option key so it finds another system to boot from and choose in the Startup Disk the internal hard drive. If you don't have an operating system installed, your iMac cannot start up at all. You need to install something here. Also, I wonder if the Tiger OS install disk you used is a retail full install (black CDs or DVD) or a restore disk that came from another Mac (grey CDs or DVD). [/QUOTE]
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