I cannot install CS2 or 3 on my MacBook

Hello,
I have an old PowerBook 1.25GHz that I had both cs2 and CS3 on, I just was given a barley used MacBook and proceeded to install CS2 first as I could not find he CS3 disk. It installed Photoshop and illustrator ok but did not install indesign. Then I found the cs3 disc so I tried to install that, everything went fine until it got to a certain point and and would not install more than acrobat and a few non essential programs. I tried everything to get it to work, finally decided to copy disc to desk top and do an install from my desktop, it would not copy, again to a certain point. I found the file I think it causing problems and did not copy it over but I cannot install now. When I click the install nothing happens.
Any suggestions?

Same here...I just got my new iPhone 6, I can't get my iPhone to update on itself. (Thought it was an internet issue)
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