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i'm just going to take it in to the MAC Store at the mall and see what they think.

ok - the G5Tower would boot from the laptop hard drive after installing the OS. I put the drive back into the iBook and now it just goes to the screen with the [?]. If i hold the OPTION key to go to the boot select screen, it shows the HD with the X on it. I select it and it thinks for a couple...

i just did, did it at 7GB and it is installing to the disk now. Thanks.

I bought a firewire enclosure, created 2 partitions using the disk utility on the G5Tower via firewire. 1 being 8.1GB and the other being 29.2GB. I inserted the OSX 10.3 retail cd in the G5Tower and rebooted. It shows the 2 partitions with firewire icons on them in the setup app, but says "You...

I used a usb hd enclosure.

so use one of these? http://www.meritline.com/2-5-anodized-combo-aluminum-enlosure.html

how would I fit a laptop drive into the G5's bay?

It is the only thing to select, it is pushed in. You can hear the cd turn, a clock icon comes up while it thinks for roughly 3 seconds, then comes back to where it started. I just tested the cd in a G5 tower running Leopard and the CD works. How else can I get this OS on this new hard drive?

I have done that many times to no avail...it just sits there with a black screen and I hear the cdrom turning. ALSO: I press "option" to get to the boot select screen. Mac OS X Install CD shows as an option with a refresh arrow on the left and a right arrow shown on the right. I press...

I can not format the disk from the Install CD because my whole problem is that it will NOT boot to the retail Panther CD.

I dont understand how the drive not being partition, in the manner you just explained, has anything to do with booting with the retail install cd.

i am thinking about buying retail version of 10.2 then upgrading to Panther, but it may do the same thing it is doing now.

no firewire - 1 usb, a cdrom, modem, nic, and audio jack.

It is the retail version, sorry about that. I threw a 256 stick a while back when running 10.2, so it was at 320. It ran fine on the other HD with the same ram.

I am looking at the black box with a giant silver X on it and it has a CompUSA sku tag on it as well as MAC OX X Panther RETAIL barcode sticker on bottom. (v10.3.5 RETAIL).

First, I am not a mac guy, so please be patient. I have a blueberry clamshell I am upgrading for a friend. Installed a new 40gb HD formatted on a G5 Tower running Leopard into the iBook (wow! what a nightmare!) I have an OS X Panther OEM cd in the ibook cdrom and also tried in an external usb...