[G4] upgrade and hardware issue v2.0

[Richard Klein]

Erin Anon wrote:
>  
> I have a PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics) with 400MHz processor and 1gb of ram 
> and I'm having a few 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. Now, the only reason I'm upgrading to 10.4 is because someone 
> said that I would like widgets and they just randomly gave me the disk.  
> I was happy to stay at 10.3.9 since it works flawlessly, but now the 
> fact that I cant upgrade is really bothering me. 
> 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. And my mac does 
> apparently have firewire, so thats not an issue.
> Any ideas?

Do you have access to another IDE DVD-ROM drive that you can swap in to 
see if that makes a difference?

Also, in my opinion, you're not missing much with regards to the 
widgets.  The only widget I use is a Sudoku game to keep me sane while 
I'm waiting for other tasks to finish.

-- 
Rich