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G4 PowerMac (sawtooth i think) 400 MHZ COMPUTER, 512MB of Ram, 20Gig Hard Drive it originally had Panther but it was buggy and I have tiger so I wanted to upgrade it. But when I went to upgrade it needed the users password. And I bought my mac off of ebay and the owner didnt remember the pass...

Yes still nothing

I tried so many things in a desprate attempt to fix my stupid Mac I wiped it out with OS 9 disk by deleting everything in HD. Now I still can't install and OS 9 isn't turning on. I know what I did was stupid I will wreap what i sewed. But if anyone has an idea how to help me it would be great!

alrighty thank you

I want to install OS X Tiger on my Mac because 1.) I have been having errors (see previous post) and 2.) I would like to upgrade. But I keep getting an error screen saying I need to restart. I never usually get passed the preparing installation menu. How do I wipe out the hard drive so theres no...

Didn't work :( Would a linux distro do the trick??

or even maybe put a linux distro and then try to install mac on top??

well i did it and it still comes up as promt and yes I tried exit and I get the cursor and blue BG then it switches to console again. Would a strong magnet work??

Tried the Mount -uw / then it said I dont have permission...

This is what it says.

The first thing you told me to do said PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 286 ?? S 0:0.03 -bash The fsck -yf does nothing

Typing reboot doesn't work it says operation denied.

I did turn off the computer :). Restarted and it was a blank screen.(like i said powersave came on.) it had 2 = 256 memory

ok I did the pull out one ram thing and then there was no visual at all. My monmitor went into power save mode. I don't know what to do with this thing..

Ok it is a dvd drive i dont think it burns tho. I am going to try what u said right now.

Tried the D key thing I don't think it did anything..

ok thank you i will try this. Would a new hard drive fix this? Or better yet how do I remormat a HD without the disk..This thing seems really weird..

I have tried that method and still no luck(it still says restart). It is a PowerMac G4 sawtooth(i think its sawtooth).

Yes I have tiger install disks but they wont work it keeps telling me to restart my computer..

I bought a Mac on Ebay and I wanted to upgrade it to Tiger. But the person who owned it before me doesn't know the master password for it. So I tried it when I reset and I don't know what exactly went wrong but the install never worked it always says to reset.. Ugh.. And now everything is ion...