[iBook] Panther Installation

[Peter Nevett]

No, it's 6GB, but there are 4.87 GB free after the recent reformatting 
and sorting out. Surely that's enough to install Panther?

Pete

On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Eric Hall wrote:

> How big is the hard drive? Is it over 7 gig?
>
> Eric
>
> --- On Wed, 8/27/08, Peter Nevett <nevett at tequis.com.mx> wrote:
>> From: Peter Nevett <nevett at tequis.com.mx>
>> Subject: Re: [iBook] Panther Installation
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." 
>> <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 3:47 PM
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Tom R. no spam wrote:
>>
>> > According to my experience and everything I've ever heard,
>> > your worries are unnecessary.  And as for re-trying firmware
>> > update, you can try it if you want, if it's not needed the
>> > updater will just tell you that.
>> >
>> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Peter Nevett wrote:
>> >  . .
>>  .
>> >> Thanks for all the help. I have checked the firmware and it seems
>> >> up-to-date (4.1.7). Is there any point in re-updating it?
>> >> I am still a bit worried that following Tom's procedure above
>> might
>> >> leave me with no OS at all. Is this likely? I have an OS 9 CD from
>> >> which the iBook will boot reliably.
>>
>> I took your advice and followed the steps outlined earlier: boot from
>> OS 9 cd, zero the hard drive, reformat, boot from OS X cd.
>> Then nothing!  Just a blue screen with an endlessly rotating line.
>>
>> I rebooted from OS 9 cd, installed OS 9.2 and put back the essential
>> software from my backup.
>> So I still don't have Panther but the Clamshell runs much faster for
>> the reformatting.
>>
>> I tried to install Panther again on the machine but with the same
>> results as originally, stuck on "Preparing installation".
>>
>> Any more suggestions? Maybe I need to replace the
>>  memory?
>>
>> Thanks for all the help so far,
>>
>> Pete
>>
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