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Thanks again! This old grandpa couldn't remember and yes the HD is still working.

I have a nice old G4 iBook with no os and a dead optical drive. I do have an OSX PPC 10.4 install disk, a Intel iMac and a portable HD. My question is can I reinstall 10.4 on the iBook with this setup and if so how?

Have you tried these other PPC browsers,Camino,Omniweb or Roccat ?

Did you have Xmarks for Firefox and Safari ?

I don't know about Kutcher but "Pirates Of Silicon Valley" was a good bio of Jobs early years and Noah Wiley was great as Jobs.

Handbrake to rip and Burn for making the disk.

Did you ever consider that it might just be broken ! You might consider adding a disk eject icon to your upper panel and see if that works.

You might want do download this, http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5968/mactracker It's a lot of help for many questions.

On the OSX 10.3.2 install disks for Emacs ,You'll find OS 9.2 on the third disk with along with AHT.

Here is an excellent resource for PPC apps" www.pure-mac.com" covers all the way back to 7.0 but you'll have to search the categories ! It might save you a whole lot of typing! If everything else fails go to here http://lmgtfy.com/?q=booting+off+of+different+partions+on+a+mac#seen It'll solve...

If your talking about a stripped down system for use on older Macs,yes it would be a good idea. But you'll never see it happen.Apple wants you to keep buying the latest and greatest to keep the money rolling in!

Don't know what you're each running for Macs as it does make a difference! But I'll try to point you in the right direction Look for older copies of these two apps, "Flip4mac and"Perian". The first will handle your wmv. files and the second most everything else. You will need to install the...

Safari 1 is useless these days.Try downloading the Camino web browser or an older version of FireFox. Gmail help section will give you all the info you need. Stick with Mail. Entourage is for volume users and uses quite a bit of system resources. If your ISP has an email service that would be...

If you have a retail OS9 disk it will be white with a large orangey "9" on the front. If you can boot from a OSX disc and not the 9, chances are that the disc is bad.I actually have an retail OS9 disc that can no longer be read ! Can't remember the name of it,but you have a good Apple reseller...

And you want to know or do what ??