Help: MAC OSX10.2 won't install on iMac 350 Blueberry

Ivan

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Hello Everyone,

Here's my situation:

I have an old iMac 350 Blueberry with 512MB Ram, 160GB HD, DVD-Rom. Previously I had no problems installing both OS9.2 and OSX and the system ran perfectly for a couple of months. It started to get unstable to the point where Safari and other programs would refuse to run. So I decided to do a clean install, and partition the disk so that OS9 and OSX run on different partitions. OS9.2 installs and runs perfectly. The problem is OSX10.2 refuses to install. It will get through the point where it goes through the packages on the CD but after about 10 minutes a black screen open firmware prompt comes up and says that there was an error installing and prompts to reboot, killing the installation. Has anyone else ever seen this come up. Another thing is that I can not boot into open firmware (option command o + f). When I tried updating the firmware, the updater says that my mac is not an imac, even though system profiler lists it as a mac. This has really got me stumped because I had no issues whatsoever installing OSX before. Anyone have any ideas? Any help much appreciated!
 
Although I run OS9 and OSX on separate partitions, there's actually little advantage and some disadvantages so I recommend you reformat the drive as a single partition. Installing OSX first may help.

If you really really need two partitions then install OSX first and make sure it's on the first partition. This is the one that's highest in the Disc Utility display.
 
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