[G4] upgrading to 10.4 and possible faulty nic

[B G]

10.4 will not install on some of the older machines, yours is one.

You are stuck at 10.3.9 unless you can find someway around the  
installer.


On Apr 6, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Erin Anon wrote:

> I have a PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics) with 400MHz processor and 1gb  
> of ram and I'm having two issues.
>
> First is an upgrade issue:
> It currently has 10.3.9 on it, and I've gotten two different  
> upgrade dvd's from two different people for 10.4 but I keep having  
> the same problem.
> I put the dvd in the dvd drive, and it just spits it right back out  
> after thinking about it for about 5 seconds.  The cd/dvd icon never  
> shows up on the desktop.
> I've tried rebooting and holding c but that just does the same thing.
> One of the dvd's was dvd-r but the other was dvd+r.
> I'm thinking the drive is probably fine since it plays normal dvd  
> movies and can run an ubuntu livecd just fine as well.
> Also, my mac doesn't have firewire which it mentions on the apple  
> site is a requirement, but would that matter?
> Any ideas?



Brian

G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM