Cant install new OS! and nothing works!
i have a problem, my friend has come with his Powerbook G3 and has asked me to fix it, he had OS 9 installed but he had deleted a whole load of files, so most of his applications wouldnt start, missing plug ins etc, therefore he couldnt use any applications he needed (adobe illustrator etc) nor open the documents.
I thought i would simply re-install the operating system and then all the programs to make sure everything was correct, and decided to upgrade him to OSX at the same time, i insterted the install CD but it wouldnt start or show up on the desktop atall, I know the drive works because music and other cd's show up fine, and i know the cd isnt damaged as i have several backup copies. so i went to startup utility or whatever its called in os 9 and noticed there was os x already installed, so i re-started with this...
it was an early version of os x and there was loads of question marks in the dock rather than programs, nothing seems to work in it not even system preferences, and i have no idea how to restart with os9 again, i thought i would install the newer version of osx over the top by restarting holding the "C" key down with the installation cd in the drive but it doesnt work.
what can i do? basically it will only startup now in a completely usless osx with no working features, and i cant get any OS installation CD's to work.
Please Help!
Ali, thanks for pointing out the specs in the other thread. I checked all three threads originally, but hadn't been keeping up with the other two since then. I have exactly the same model PB G3 (the predecessor to my Tibook) and am very familiar with it.
Chris, a 4GB hard drive is too small for installing Panther on it to make any sense whatsoever. With only 64MB of RAM, you couldn't do so even if you insisted on trying to do it with XPostFacto.
OS 8.1 from the PB's original, model-specific installer disc, OS 8.5 from a retail installer disc, or OS 9.x from a retail installer disc are the three reasonable installation options you have. If you don't have access to any of those three discs, you just aren't going to be able to help your friend.
EDIT: Hold down the Option key at startup and see whether the Startup Manager will appear and allow you to switch the startup System to OS 9. If it does, and OS 9 boots successfully, then open the Startup Disk control panel immediately and select OS 9 as the startup System, to make the setting stick. But I don't know whether the Startup Manager was included in the old OS X version that's installed now, or if so, whether it too has been crippled by indiscriminate file deletions or system crashes since the tinkering began. Nor do I know whether your friend has so crippled his OS 9-based applications that they won't run even in OS 9. As Ali says, with the hard drive in its present condition, I wouldn't bet much on the chances that the PB will operate reliably in any OS until you've wiped the drive and reinstalled everything on it.
EDIT AGAIN: No, the Startup Manager isn't going to be the answer. It doesn't work on a PB G3, apparently.
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