Alright, I’ve yet to find a good guide on this. Apple boards aren’t helping at all, and it seems impossible to find an archived post with my problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n
I picked up 2 iMac G3s. One was bright blue, the other graphite. The blue one didn’t seem to turn on, and the graphite didn’t have a hard drive. I pulled the necessary stuff from the blue one to complete the graphite one, and got it to turn on and boot into OS X 10.2.
\nHowever, its got a ton of pictures, apps, printer files, and other stuff on there that I’d like to get rid of. Not to mention 10.2 is kinda…bad. I got a set of the Tiger CDs, but I ejected the drive and found an OS X 10.1 install CD. I thought I might try that (as I’m a sucker for old software), so I put it in and hold the C key on the keyboard. It blows past and boots straight into the existing hard drive. I also was thinking about Classic, so I put in a retail 9.2.1 CD. It would do the same thing, just blow past and load 10.2.<\/p>\n
So, I went into the settings and changed the startup disk to the CD drive and got the following results:
\n-10.1 install would load, get to the disk selection, and refuse to let me chose my hard drive, with something about different languages.
\n-9.2.1 would show the happy mac, and then freeze. 5 minutes later, CD isn’t spinning, HDD isn’t spinning, and its still showing happy mac.<\/p>\n
unless tiger is different and lets me access my Disk Utility, and the utility actually lets me erase the disk, I’m stumped.<\/p>\n
PLEASE, someone tell me they can fix this, or give a way to fix it. I’m really tired of having to mess with this. I should be able to put in the disc, hold the key, and boot the CD, right? so what’s this about not booting it?<\/p>\n
Just a bit too reto<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":25},"question-category":[59],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-mac"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}