Installing OS 10.3 on B&W

Finagle67

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So, here's my problem. I salvaged a revision 1 B&W from my work, and installed 10.3 on it. No problem. A little slow, but liveable. Then, a couple months later, they were getting rid of a rev 2 B&W 400 Mhz. So I ripped the HD's out of the one I had worked with, put it in the rev 2, and tried to throw 10.3 on it. No such luck.

It will install the first cd, but it never asks for the 2nd. It just says the it is done installing and reboots. Then it boots for a bit, displays the folder with a question mark, and eventually the universal NO sign on a gray background.

So what is the problem? The cds worked FINE on the other system, so I don't think its an issue with the cds. I think it might be the firmware, because I didn't think to check the new system before I wiped OS 9 off it. If its the firmware, is there ANY way to restore it without a copy of OS 9? Or if that doesn't sound like the problem, what is? I'm absolutely stumped, and those of my friends who know Macs are too.
 
Can you still boot from the installation CD? Go check the harddrives with it and try installing again.
 
Sure can, and they pass. I should have added that to the above post. I did test the drives, and they passed. I had originally just tried installing OVER the original installation on the disc (of OS 9.something). When that failed, i checked the drives, and then wiped them. Tried to install, failed, checked them again. The drives pass every time. :(
 
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