EMac 800 mhz, OS 10

Question

I am preparing an emac 800 mhz for resale, and wiped the hard drive.  I can only get OS9 to reinstall on the system.  When I try to install OS 10.2, with the origonal disks that came with the computer, it goes into a kernel panic when I run the install process.  I am stuck at this point.  I had this machine running 10.3 connecting wirelessly a few months ago.  Still a decent machine and would love to get a few bucks out of it if I could get it back up to OS 10.  Any ideas on what to do or try?  Thanks

Answer 1

  1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
   2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
      *Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
   3. Click the Erase tab.
   4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
   5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
   6. Highlight the drive, select Partition Tab, then Format type... MacOS Extended Journalled, select the Security Options button, choose Zero Out Data, Erase... after completion hopefully you'll be able to install.