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- iMac G4 15" Leopard 10.5 768MB RAM 80GB HD 1.33GHz, Acer Aspire 5515 Vista 3GB RAM 160GB HD 1.60 GHz
Hey everybody. I have a iMac G3 (32 mb ram, 6 gb hd, 15", tray loading cd-drive, no firewire, basically, a pretty old, weak thing!) and what I did was, I turned it on for the first time in years. It was running OS 9.1. Okay, whatever. So, I have this copy of Panther, and decided to turn the iMac on again (this is a few days later) to see if I can install it to upgrade the iMac. All good. It turns on, does the bong, but then- the evil little demon with the folder and flashing Mac/? symbol. I can install Panther by pressing "C" key at startup, but I'm first just trying to figure out what happened to OS 9. Where did it go? Like I said, I turned it on few days earlier, and OS 9.1. It wasn't even TOUCHED for those days in between. And I turn it back on and- no OS. It had 9!!! Basically, I just want to know if anybody has even a CLUE what might have happened here. It ran 9 perfectlly well, and- gone. Please help! Thanks a lot.