[iBook] HD & CD drive replacements

[Steve Stuckwisch]

On Jun 21, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Joy Freeman wrote:

> I just replaced the hard drive in my husband's 12" G3 iBook. Now I  
> can't get
> it to boot from a CD; it just spits it back out. Turns out he's  
> been having
> problem with the CD drive (a SuperDrive, I think), too. If I'd  
> realized it
> was also bad, I would have replaced the CD drive at the same time.
>
> So now I'm looking for CD drives, figuring there are probably lots  
> of cheap
> pulls out there, but I don't know what I need to know to ID one  
> that would
> definitely work for an iBook unless someone tells me it was pulled  
> from an
> identical machine. Anyone know of an online source of basic optical  
> drive
> knowledge?
>
> Anyway, until we get a new CD drive, could we load OSX on the new  
> hard drive
> using one of our other Macs via firewire disk mode? (I was able to  
> "look at"
> the new drive with the Disk Utility app on a second iBook by using  
> firewire
> disk mode.) Or would an external CD drive be better? Any better ideas?
>
Yes, disk mode will work.  I used disk mode to install OSX 10.4 on my  
old 500MHz dual usb iBook because it lacked a DVD drive.   Simply  
boot the iBook into disk mode and install the system on that drive  
from the install disk.
Steve