[G4] DVD Player 4.0 and using a floppy in OS9, OSX, on G4's , etc.

[Ronald Steinke]

On 18 June, 2006, at 5:02:41, James Asherman wrote:

>
> On Jun 18, 2006, at 7:07 PM, SLarsonIH at aol.com wrote:
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>> First, a question. I just replaced the Apple CD/RW with a Pioneer  
>> 111D DVD/RW
>> in my QS. I went to play a movie, and found out I have no DVD  
>> Player in
>> 10.3.9, presumably because I installed 10.3.9 with the CD drive in  
>> it. Is there a
>> way to install the DVD Player software? I tried to find DVD Player  
>> 4.0 (that's
>> what's on my MDD) on Apple's site to download with no success. I  
>> even reran
>> the 10.3.9 updater, but it didn't install the player either. In 9  
>> I could just
>> find all the related files and copy them, but don't know if that  
>> is even
>> possible in X. Help please.
>
>
> I think (caveat) that you need to use your system install CD to do  
> a custom install of the DVD player.
> Jim

The last time I had something like this occur, I used the OS  
installation CD to re-install the missing portion. When I started up  
with the CD, it gave me a new box with "Add/Remove Programs" as an  
option. I added the missing browser program and all was well with the  
world.