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atok - 10 May 2006 03:07 GMT

Hi,
If this discussion is already somewhere, please direct me to it.

i have an ibook g4 800MHz. been using it for 2.5yrs now. but now the
system cannot run. it started with the system becomes very2 slow then
suddenly i cant boot the system. the question-mark-folder icon appears.
i've tried to reinstall the OS using the CD provided, but kept on
failing to do so. the OS is 10.3. please help.

i've been reading that Linux can be installed on Mac machine. howto do
it? i'm new to linux. thanks again.

-atok-

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Garner Miller - 10 May 2006 03:21 GMT

> i have an ibook g4 800MHz. been using it for 2.5yrs now. but now the
> system cannot run. it started with the system becomes very2 slow then
> suddenly i cant boot the system. the question-mark-folder icon appears.
> i've tried to reinstall the OS using the CD provided, but kept on
> failing to do so. the OS is 10.3. please help.

It sounds to me like the hard disk is having problems. Step one is to
reboot the machine from that Mac OS CD. Restart the machine with that
CD in it, and keep the "C" key held down until it starts up from the
CD.

Then, navigate the menus and look for the Disk Utility. Run it, and
run both the Repair Disk and Repair Permissions functions. See if that
helps. If not, it may be time for a new hard disk. But definitely try
the simple fixes first; that may be all it needs.

> i've been reading that Linux can be installed on Mac machine. howto do
> it? i'm new to linux. thanks again.

If your hard disk is in trouble, linux isn't going to help you. But if
you'd like to try it for other reasons, there are lots of linux
distributions that'll run on a PowerPC Mac. The only one I fooled with
recently was Ubuntu, which is a nicely packaged system using the GNOME
graphical interface:

http://www.ubuntu.com/
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atok - 10 May 2006 03:31 GMT

i've tried that many2 time, the boot and pressing-c thing. the disk
utility shows there is a volume. it have difficulty to mount and
unmount. i've verify the volume, and there is no error. when i
reinstall the OS, it fails after volume verification. i've try few
times but to no avail.

what is the next step?

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Gregory Weston - 10 May 2006 12:12 GMT

> i've tried that many2 time, the boot and pressing-c thing. the disk
> utility shows there is a volume. it have difficulty to mount and
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>
> what is the next step?

Replace the drive. Pretty much any 2.5" ATA drive you'd buy today would
be compatible. Unfortunately, replacing the hard drive in any model
called "iBook" is not for the faint of heart. There are places that will
do it for you, of course, and if you're patient and have the right
screwdrivers it's really not _that_ bad to do yourself. More
nervewracking than actually difficult as such.

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atok - 11 May 2006 00:52 GMT

thanks greg.

i've taken out the harddrive, and yes it is not for the faint of heart.
i've counted there are 44 screws of different sizes to deal with.
anyhow, it's not that difficult but very very nervewrecking. agree to
that! thanks again!

-off to buy new HDD-

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