[olug] A Mac Question

[Craig Wolf]

You can do that also...Joe, you could put the new HD that you are going to use in the old machine into the new machine and use Disk Utility to partition it with the Mac OS.

Craig Wolf
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>>> clundst at unlserve.unl.edu 10/6/2006 >>>
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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