installing Jaguar on beige g3

[ndrwln]

hello. I have just installed jaguar on my beige g3 desktop and was checking stuff. i shut it down and started it back up and it was stuck on the grey screen with the apple and spinning cirlce. i tried to use the jaguar disks but nothing worked so i decided to place the hard drive in another computer and wiped it clean. i then tried to install jaguar again but now the cd drive will start spinning and then stop and eject the cd. i tried pressing the c key during the start up and tried it with out. an suggestions on what i should try?

If it helps it is a 266 with a 10 GB hard drive and 256 ram. it previously had os 9 on it but i deleted one of the main files on accident and obviously woudl not start up any more.

 

[RacerX]

...it is a 266 with a 10 GB hard drive and 256 ram.

If it has a 10 GB drive and you haven't partitioned it, then you are going to run into trouble.

Mac OS X can only be installed on a volume that is 8 GB or less and is at the front of a disk (in other words, the first partition) on old world Macs like that one. The 8 GB limit for a boot volume effects all of the beige G3 series systems (desktop and mini tower).