That's a really handy device to have around, particularly if you have other old Macs. I can get around that here, because I have a 10.4 installer on an external firewire hard drive, and no need to worry about how the optical drive will work on an older Mac. You can try blowing into the drive slot with a can-o-air, worth doing, might help, might not make a difference. The OTHER possibility is that the drive just doesn't read the DVD properly because the optical drive is failing. Need to know the exact message, or even that you see no message at all, and you get a kernel panic (a screen that may say you need to shutdown your computer, in multiple languages)Ī fresh DVD - even one made from your suspected DVD, may work very well. If it fails (again), you should get some kind of error about that, even something like "some software could not be installed", or something like that.
After power is off, restart to the 10.4 installer, and try to install the system again. When the Disk Utility, with a new single partition, is done (should only take a few seconds, assuming the drive is still OK), then choose Shutdown from the menu. It is also very possible that if you have the original hard drive, that may be failing. That should absolutely be the best steps to make sure the drive is ready to install OS X. Choose the Options button, and make sure that Apple Partition Map (APM) is selected, and then make sure that Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is the partition type, then name the partition (whatever name you like) and press the Continue button. In Partitions, choose the drop down, and select 1 partition. Choose the hard drive, which would be the top line, showing the manufacturer's info with model number, not the line with the drive label. There is no iBook with a 1.6 GHz processor.īoot to your 10.4 installer again. That sounds like a Late 2004 iBook, but a 14-inch display would be on a 1.33 GHz.
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