[trogolodyte]

Hello, I just purchased an ibook g3 that had a fried hard drive on it. So, I bought a second hand hard drive off of ebay , So I painstakingly got the hard drive installed and it seems as if I did everything correctly. So now there are two options for me to log onto the cpu, one ia (guest) , and the other one is (J Todd Contantine) , so Ive already gotten a response from someone telling me to put in the install disc and hold down C, and then go thru some process.
Right so I need some advice because I couldnt get it working doing that.
Here's the deal. I dont have the original discs for this computer, but my mother just bought a G4 ibook, so I have been trying to use install disc one of that set to do a hardware test, and to load up from install disc one. But it just says something like it cannot be done with this disc. So do I need to get a very specific ibook g3 install disc, or what? Ive tried using this disc and holding down c while its booting up, but that doesnt work. Any help/ advice would be greagtly appreciated. Also if someone has what I need that would be great. Oh, I also have an Os x tiger Disc that says it includes xcode 2 and says that its a cpu drop in dvd , will this disc help me at all? It as well came with anibook g4,
Oh yeah my cpu is a g3 ibook 14" , with an airport card, 20 gig hard drive, 256 mb ram, and a 700 mhz processor.

Thank you , Kai

[VegasACF]

Originally Posted by trogolodyte

Here's the deal. I dont have the original discs for this computer, but my mother just bought a G4 ibook, so I have been trying to use install disc one of that set to do a hardware test, and to load up from install disc one. But it just says something like it cannot be done with this disc. So do I need to get a very specific ibook g3 install disc, or what? Ive tried using this disc and holding down c while its booting up, but that doesnt work. Any help/ advice would be greagtly appreciated. Also if someone has what I need that would be great. Oh, I also have an Os x tiger Disc that says it includes xcode 2 and says that its a cpu drop in dvd , will this disc help me at all? It as well came with anibook g4,

The discs that ship with computers are (usually) specific to that computer. They cannot be used to startup another model.

If you were to purchase a retail copy of the OS (on eBay or whatever) it should work. But you have to make sure it's a retail copy, not the OEM discs that shipped with whatever other machine.

[tedwinder]

I think this is what you need.