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<blockquote data-quote="desines" data-source="post: 20910">hello all...am having problems installing osx on a beige g3 desktop system. was able to successfully install a while back and then hard drive crashed. finally found replacement 8gb harddrive to install on.have harddrive set as slave and cd drive set as master on same channel. when i turn mac on, get little floppy disk in the middle of screen w/ a blinking question mark. not sure what this means exactly. any result other than this that i am getting is a black screen. 1st off.. not sure if all is connected properly. from what i have read, bleieve it to be. 2nd: not sure which is primary ide channel. in upper left of motherboard see SCSIIDE?IDE?again, am not sure which one is primary. any assistance would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance as i am a newbie to the whole mac experience and definitely want to learn to learn this as i am tired and way to used to working on pc'sthanks again</blockquote>

[QUOTE="desines, post: 20910"] hello all... am having problems installing osx on a beige g3 desktop system. was able to successfully install a while back and then hard drive crashed. finally found replacement 8gb harddrive to install on. have harddrive set as slave and cd drive set as master on same channel. when i turn mac on, get little floppy disk in the middle of screen w/ a blinking question mark. not sure what this means exactly. any result other than this that i am getting is a black screen. 1st off.. not sure if all is connected properly. from what i have read, bleieve it to be. 2nd: not sure which is primary ide channel. in upper left of motherboard see SCSI IDE? IDE? again, am not sure which one is primary. any assistance would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance as i am a newbie to the whole mac experience and definitely want to learn to learn this as i am tired and way to used to working on pc's thanks again [/QUOTE]

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