OK Here is the latest in my continuing saga.. It looks like my friend was able to get OSX installed. However, It is asking me to register and create my user account. When I get to the section where it asks you to select a picture for your account there are no pictures there for me to select there for it will not let me go any farther and I seem to be stuck.
Any suggestions? Mike --- On Fri, 3/13/09, Michael Shanks <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Michael Shanks <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Question about ibook > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 1:54 PM > I don't think that's it. Yes it does get through the > first part like you said however when I tried last night I > was going through target mode and running it on my mac mini > and I know my mini dvd drive is good. Today I was running a > cd rom off the ibook itself and it did the same thing. So I > am not sure about that. A friend of mine is taking it home > tonight he is going to try and install 10.4 first using his > external dvd burner so we will see then. I will keep all > posted how it goes. Hopefully this will take care of it. > > > --- On Fri, 3/13/09, Bruce Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Bruce Johnson > <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Question about ibook > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 1:15 PM > > On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Michael Shanks wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Well I have tried several times and still the > same > > thing. > > > I believe that Malcolm is correct. > > > A friend of mine says he has a retail copy and we > are > > going to try > > > it tomorrow. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Mike > > > > If it's getting through the first part of the > install, > > then blowing up > > when it's trying to restart and finish with > 'There > > were errors' > > message, it could be your DVD drive. I ran into a very > > similar problem > > trying to install 10.4 on one of my systems, it turned > out > > to be a > > flaky external DVD drive. > > > > -- > > Bruce Johnson > > University of Arizona > > College of Pharmacy > > Information Technology Group > > > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
