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If you have another Macintosh with a firewire port you can plug them into each other with a 6 Pin to 6 Pin FireWire cable. Start up the iBook holding down T and a FireWire icon will begin moving on the screen. Soon thereafter the iBooks drive will appear in the other Macs desktop as a standard FireWire drive that you can install OS X onto using the other mac.<br><div><div>On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Janice F. Jorgensen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">I have an USB dual ibook 500 mg.</font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">the optical drive is gone.</font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">I need to re- install os x 10.4. the hard drive is 10 gig and is empty right now. i had it installed previously. I hear maybe i can use a firewire ...etc. Any good explicit instructions out there. </font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">I have also heard that it cannot be done.. with my ibook model. HELP!!!!!!!</font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">thanks so much</font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">Janice F. Jorgensen<br>janicejorgensenatcharterdotnet</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">iBook mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984">http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>