IBook G4 can't install Tiger and "Invalid memory access"

My friend recently bought an iBook G4, came with Panther 10.3.9 on it, he has been trying to install a retail version of Tiger on it and
At first the installer would pop up, he'd go through the steps and then it would prompt him to restart but once it had rebooted nothing had changed, still in 10.3.9.
Then he restarted with Alt, and tried to boot from the installer disk and he got the following message "Invalid Memory Access at % SRRO: 3132636c % SRRI: 40003030"
He was then prompted to type "mac-boot" to restart and upon restarting he got a folder icon with a question mark, which I understand means the HD couldn't be detected but it still booted up anyway.
Any thoughts? :/

I'm not sure what that error message means, but I am wondering if the hard drive might be beginning to go south. If you open Disk Utility, is the S.M.A.R.T. status verified? If the drive is the original, then it could well be getting to the end of its useful life of 3-5 years, even if it is still working after a fashion.
Did your friend get the original Panther system discs? If so, it might be a good idea to run the extended version of the Apple Hardware Test and see if anything shows up.
One thing to try is to boot from the Tiger install disc and then navigate to Disk Utility. Since this iBook is a recent purchase, it may be that there is no data to save. If so, your friend could go ahead and erase and reformat the disk before proceeding with the installation.
If Disk Utility cannot erase and reformat the disk or if the disk cannot be seen, then it will likely not be possible to install anything.
Also, be sure the RAM meets the minimum requirements for Tiger.
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Its a long story but here is a quick summary of why I am attempting to do this:
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Jeff, you have me thinking now. I think I will be safe and try another idea. I have a 4 GIG internal SCSI drive I could use to backup my data in 4 GIG sections at a time via my Adaptec 2430 SCSI card. I could then move this hard drive over to my other G3 onto its 40 GIG hard drive. This would be done three times to take off all my data and essentially provide a backup before I install Tiger. Good idea. You are right. It is better to play it safe.
By the way 8.6 can handle HFS+. And yes, I should eventually buy an external drive solution - probably an enclosure. I saw one called "coolmax" [1]. It could hold a SATA drive and it had USB, firewire and also an external SATA port.
And also Jef thanks for the info about formatting drives. I am glad to hear it is not important to zero all data if you don't have to. I am not concerned about havig anything to hide and so yes, I will just click "format" - that should be fine. Zero all data takes such a long time and I would rather avoid using it if I don't need this feature. Thanks for the advice.
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