I had to stick in another cd drive just to get it loaded. I didn't mount it in, just plugged it in and let it hang. I think other people did the same thing in the past. I pulled one out of an actual apple computer. It worked. Once installed, I pulled the drive. The ones from Umax will just give you problems. Umax S900 G3 card 384 megs etc. On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 03:48 PM, o lewis wrote:

Hello all. I am trying to install 7.0 on the following system: umax c500 running a 603e at 200 mhz.(but with a L2 cache slot g3 card running at 400 mhz) I have 144 mb ram, and I have added a 2 usb/2 firewire pci card.

when I try to boot off of the cd the installer seems to work fine until it gets to the scsi cd-rom drive(matshita cd-rom cr 506 with driver version 5.3.1) then the last three lines are scsi:0:mesh, scsi:1 host, mesh:target 3 synchronous at 5.0 mb/s after that last line the system hangs. I have waited as long as 20 minutes and nothing happens. I have tried to boot from a hfs partition but the same result occurs. I also tried downloading the latest version of the ppc kernel and booting from hd, but that had the same result. any help would be greatly appreciated.

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