At 11:16 AM -0700 8/12/06, Robert Crawford wrote: >I then tried erase and a reinstall. It did not work. The erase seems to have >worked and the OS disk ran at normal speed after I did that. However, I got >the message The software can not be installed, please try again (something >like that). Now the iBook is back to running very slow as I try to open the >disk utility again. At this point we need to know what version of OS X you are tring to install, as installing 10.4 is slightly different from previous versions. So, what OS X version install disc are you using? M