Reinstalling Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and system is locked

I am trying to reinstall Tiger because my G4 Powerbook was crashing. The first disk loaded fine but after the sytem restarts, it does not ask for the second disk and is locked up on the start page with the apple icon. I have restarted and reinstalled the first disk and I still have the same problem. Any suggestions on what to do?
Thnxs.

07-Oct-2008 08:51 AM
leevickers wrote:
I have downloaded the plug-in for iSync 2.4 (Nokia_N96_isync_plugin_1v1.dmg) but it doesn't seem to work even after a restart of both the Mac and phone.
Hi leevickers
Have suggested elsewhere that you try using later version Nokia_N96_isync_plugin_1v2.dmg dated 19 September 2008
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