Thank you so much for your help! Ultimately, I was able to get it to boot from the single layer DVD instead, and it is now installing from it.īurning both the 10.5.6 ISO and the 10.5.4 DMG using ImgBurn and PowerISO respectively, on a Windows PC with a known-good drive, produced media that the iBook would read and mount while booted to 10.4, but would not boot from.īurning them with Disk Utility produced discs that the machine refused to read - spin up, spin down, eject.
Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 - ( Download #27 - #31)Ĭomplete Tiger Updates (10.4.11 Combo, Java, Safari, Quicktime) Mac OS X Panther 10.3 - Apple Internal Edition DVD - ( Download #25) Jaguar and Panther complete updates (Combo 10.3.9, Java.) Mac OS X Panther 10.3 - ( Download #19 - #24) Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2 - ( Download #14 - #18) ITunes 3 - iMovie 3 - iPhoto 2 Requires Mac OS 10.1.5 Mac OS X Puma 10.1 - ( Download #7 - #13)
Mac OS X Cheetah 10.0 - ( Download #2 - #6) System clock must be set before May 2001. Any and all help is greatly appreciated as I need an operating system installed on it, and would prefer it not to be a CLI Linux installation, it doesn't matter if the result is 10.1, 10.2, or 10.3.Mac OS X Internal Edition - ( Download #1) There are no hardware defunctions aside from the problems mentioned with the CD-R drive, and I am completely lost as to the problem.
I also booted to live PPC Linux and reformatted the HDD as HFS, and have tried using "free space" format as well just to be sure the installer wasn't failing to find a suitable install location, again to no avail. However while every attempt to make the OS X installer USB appears successful at first, and I am able to select it from the boot options menu (Option on boot) every variation I have made always starts booting fine at the Apple logo, the spindle appears for about 20-30 seconds, then the spindle disappears and the Apple logo is replaced by a prohibitive "no-go" sign and it hangs as though it cannot find either "yaboot" "boot.elf" or the "System" folder, the latter two I have confirmed to exist, and the first only existing in PowerPC Linux to my knowledge. I can still boot to a PPC Linux or PPC BSD disk fine. I made sure with each attempt that the image was "locked" before writing it, and set to "r- r- r-" permissions, and have tried every method formatting the USB disk to HFS, HFS+, and HFS+ Journaled, none of which worked. DMG and restoring it to the USB disk, I have tried writing the image in CDR/ISO format directly to the USB disk using both sudo dd if="image path" of=/dev/"USB disk number", as well as sudo dd if="image path" of=/dev/ r"USB disk number" bs=1M to no avail. CDR/.ISO image from the install disc, converting it to a.
I have tried restoring the first CD directly to a USB 1.1/2.0 disk, I have tried ripping the. I have the Retail Universal Installer CD-R's (Yes I am positive they're retail) for OS X 10.2.0 Jaguar, as well as 10.3.9 Panther, however every attempt I have made to install both of these has failed. Now I have grown horribly tired of using a Command-Line only environment on it, and would like to pass it on to my daughter as my grandfather did to me. So I made a live USB of PowerPC Ubuntu and booted that, wiped the HDD and installed Ubuntu. When I did this it corrupted the boot sector of the HDD leaving it unable to boot OS X, however the HDD could be read fine from a live USB.
This is where the real trouble comes in: One day while trying to upgrade from OS X 10.2.8 to 10.3 using the CD-R drive (before I had realized it didn't initialize boot discs) I had to hard boot the machine to shut it off. Given that it has a USB 1.1 port and my USB 2.0/3.0 flash disks are backwards compatible. Not to mention it has to be held shut with electrical tape because the locking mechanism has been broken for about five or six years. The drive is not "broken" per-say, however it usually takes up to an hour to initialize a CD-R, 20+ min to read a single sector, and NEVER recognizes any kind of bootable disc. The machine in question is an iBook G3 Clamshell (233MHz, 256MB SRAM, 16MB VRAM, 1xUSB 1.1 edition, 1997) with "New World" Open Firmware v4.1.7f (the latest version for that model.) The problem is that the CD-R drive has not functioned for about a decade. It would seem I am in a minor predicament with one of my older Macs.