It's cool I replaced the hard disk, the old one was borked, and am installing OSX Tiger now.
Found some decent videos here by this user powerbook medic on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PowerbookMedic
Thanks for your help nonetheless.
OK thanks I will see if I can find another mac to use, as I am an evil PC person! Arrrgh!
:-)
Yeah I'm thinking it is gone too tbh.
Sure I can find out a guide for popping the hood, just get a 50 quid hard disk and we are away.
So this is what we are working here with:
PowerBook G4.
Original install was Panther which no longer boots (get the flashing ? icon).
Permission to wipe HDD granted, so we decided to put Tiger on as the fella who owns the laptop wants to use some Tiger/Lepoard only software.
New OSX...