[Ti] Problems installing Tiger on Powerbook G4

[Andre Truter]

I have an old Powerbook G4 (550 MHz, 512 MB Ram) which I bought second
hand.  I had OS X 3.9 on it and worked fine, but the disk was full of
applications that I never use and only 2.4 GB space left.  It has been
through a few hands before I got it, so a lot of users have been created
and deleted, apps installed, etc.
I did not get any of the original software media with it, just the
Powerbook as is.
So I decided to buy Tiger for it and do a clean installation so I can
have a fresh system and have the media.

But, I am not able to install Tiger on it.  The installation will get to
the part where it installs the BSD system and then it would tell me that
the installation failed and I should try again.
Sometimes it would get to a point (Normally during installing the BSD
system and once a few steps further) and it would just hang there.  It
says "Writing files: 11% Completed" and 7 minutes remaining, but nothing
advance.  I can still use the mouse, open menu options and look at the
log.  The last message now is "Extracting files"

It has been sitting there for at least an hour.

I swapped the hard drive with another one, but still the same problem.

Any idea what the cause could be?

Thanks
Andre Truter