<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">How big is the hard drive? Is it over 7 gig?<br><br>Eric<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 8/27/08, Peter Nevett <i><nevett@tequis.com.mx></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Peter Nevett <nevett@tequis.com.mx><br>Subject: Re: [iBook] Panther Installation<br>To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." <ibook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><br>Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 3:47 PM<br><br><pre>On Aug 26, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Tom R. no spam wrote:<br><br>> According to my experience and everything I've ever heard,<br>> your worries are unnecessary. And as for re-trying firmware<br>> update, you can try it if you want, if it's not needed the<br>> updater will just tell you that.<br>><br>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Peter Nevett wrote:<br>> . .
.<br>>> Thanks for all the help. I have checked the firmware and it seems<br>>> up-to-date (4.1.7). Is there any point in re-updating it?<br>>> I am still a bit worried that following Tom's procedure above<br>might<br>>> leave me with no OS at all. Is this likely? I have an OS 9 CD from<br>>> which the iBook will boot reliably.<br><br>I took your advice and followed the steps outlined earlier: boot from <br>OS 9 cd, zero the hard drive, reformat, boot from OS X cd.<br>Then nothing! Just a blue screen with an endlessly rotating line.<br><br>I rebooted from OS 9 cd, installed OS 9.2 and put back the essential <br>software from my backup.<br>So I still don't have Panther but the Clamshell runs much faster for <br>the reformatting.<br><br>I tried to install Panther again on the machine but with the same <br>results as originally, stuck on "Preparing installation".<br><br>Any more suggestions? Maybe I need to replace the
memory?<br><br>Thanks for all the help so far,<br><br>Pete<br><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> iBook mailing list<br>> iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com<br>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook<br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>iBook mailing list<br>iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com<br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>