ilikelmo25 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 I'm still having troubles with my tangerine iBook and I think I've tried everything to get it working. Firstly, I did the easy option which was to plainly install Mac OS X 10.3 using an external DVD drive. Failed with prohibitory sign. Next, I tried to dd a Mac OS X Tiger pre-installed version. Failed as dd didn't work. Next, I tried to install a hacked Tiger off an external hard drive. Failed and froze at Preparing Installation. Then I tried to burn that hacked version. Same result. Next, I installed Mac OS 9 and XPostFacto and tried to install Tiger from an unhacked disc. Failed as XPostFacto complained that the Tiger disc wasn't bootable. It IS bootable because I installed that same unhacked version of Tiger onto an Indigo one just fine. For some reason nothing wants me to install Tiger on to my iBook. Got any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96812-grrrr/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chest12 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 You could try booting in Target Disk Mode then installing it off another mac via a firewire cable. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96812-grrrr/#findComment-691846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikelmo25 Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 I don't have a firewire cable and don't know where I'd get one. Besides, how does one go around installing Mac OS X using target disk mode? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96812-grrrr/#findComment-692261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon351 Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 When you launch Target Disk Mode, the computer acts like a FireWire disk, so when you connect it to another computer the disk will show up as another disk, same as connecting an external disk via USB or FireWire. Then launch the installer and point it to that disk/volume. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96812-grrrr/#findComment-692700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedfreaK Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 i had the same problem too when i tried to install panther on a imac g3 (slot loading thing) so i bought a firewire cable (any local computer store should have it, make sure you buy 6 pin to 6 pin (both connectors should be the same)), booted that particular imac and pressed T when booting, so it went in target disk mode. then i hooked up the imac to another one, booted the other one with the panther disk and selected the particular imac as install disk (should have a firewire icon in the installer menu) that's the only working method man, try it! (i found out that that imacs dvd drive and the battery on the motherboard were broken, maybe it's the same problem in your case) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96812-grrrr/#findComment-692815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikelmo25 Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Don't worry. I've successfully installed Mac OS X onto the tangerine iBook. This is how I did it. 1. I installed Mac OS 9.1. 2. I installed XPostFacto 3. I used CD versions of Tiger to install Tiger because firstly, the iBook doesn't have a DVD drive and XPostFacto didn't like the external DVD drive. 4. After doing a clean install over Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS X kept booting in verbose mode. I fixed this by resetting the NVRAM. It was a hard process but I got it done in the end. Thanks for your help people. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96812-grrrr/#findComment-698226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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