Installing on an empty HDD, nothing works.
I realize that this discussion has taken place in similar form; however Ive yet to find a situation similar to mine. To preface this, im a poor college student and bought a DP Power Mac G5 at our surplus store for $100 just to mess around with. I tested it when I bought it to make sure and the IT guy said that the hard drives were wiped clean of anything. No problem right? Just grab an install disk of leopard at home and boot from the CD drive. Ive held C when booting and all I get is the flashing finder/? folder indicating that the mac cant find a system file, the same thing happens with the key as well. However when I hold option it takes me to a grey screen with what appears to be a refresh arrow and an enter arrow, if I jostle a few keys it takes me to Open Firmware where Ive entered boot-cd etc. and all I get is that the load is too small. Agh, please help. :\
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