<div class="gmail_quote">OKay, let's "think" this through. You booted the computer using a Linux CD and it worked, so it appears the optical drive is working. It may be that your optical drive is CD only and you OS 10.3 disks are DVDs, althought I'd think even an older CD burner would read a DVD. IIRC, I have seen Tiger systems disks both as CDs and DVD. I know I have the full retail version on DVD. You may also not have the correct "Restore" disks. They're often specific to a single model/version of CPU.<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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?</font></div>
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