[G4] Installing OSX 10.3 on a Powermac G4 quicksilver 800 (2002)

[Alan Kidner]

Hi Andrew

You need a retail copy of the OS.  The disks are normally black.  If 
your disks are grey then they were probably were shipped with a 
particular model of Mac and therefore will not work with your machine.

Have you tried booting from the original DVD as opposed to the backup 
CDs you mention.  Your computer should have come with a drive capable of 
reading DVDs when it was new.  If you have a retail copy of the OS and 
the computer does not have a DVD then you should consider purchasing an 
new DVD-RW drive, it will only set you back about £20 and will add 
valuable functionality to your machine.

Hope this is helpful.

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Andrew Finch wrote:
> Dear All,
>  
> As a newbie, I have been given a G4 800mhz Quicksilver 2002 without a 
> hard drive. I added an unformatted drive, and have tested the hard 
> wear with Ubuntu Linux Live CD which runs Linux from CD without 
> installing fine. However, I appear not to be able to install the real 
> software, and suspect the CD's, but would welcome advice. I purchase 
> new, sealed OSX 10.3 DVDs, useless to me, but came with two back up CD 
> versions, which, I manually place in the CD drive, fire up holding the 
> "C" button down, and watch the finder in a folder, and ? pulse on the 
> display. The CD drive fires to full speed in 12 to 14 second bursts. 
> Am I missing something, or is it likely duff CD? Can I get legit OSX 
> 10.3 in the UK without ebay?
> Thanks
>  
> Trying to escape windows Smile emoticon
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