[olug] A Mac Question

Carl Lunstedt clundst at unlserve.unl.edu
Fri Oct 6 20:55:11 UTC 2006


Maybe I recalling things incorrectly, but doesn't Mac need the harddrive
'blessed' by a Mac OS before it'll use it?
Carl
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:40 -0700, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> We have a PowerMac G3 at work where the hard drive has
> gone bad.  We can't get a new hard drive to boot and
> have no idea where the OS disk for the machine is.  We
> do have a newer version of MAC OS X (10.4.6 on
> DVD)...The machine doesn't have a DVD drive just a CD
> drive.
> 
> We have tried Ubuntu PowerPC but not sure if the disc
> image(ISO)that was burnt is correct or bootable.
> 
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