Can't Install Panther on Clamshell iBook

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Zapp Brannigan

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I have this graphite rev.1 clamshell iBook. It will not boot from my factory standalone Panther CD. It mounts & reads it, but won't start up from it. The flashing '?' folder blinks a few times, then it starts from 9.
I have:
initialized & clean installed 9.2.2 - updated firmware - reset PMU - reset PRAM - reset NVRAM - removed the battery & only use AC

I know it's not the CD. I tried the CD in 3 other Macs, including another clamshell, and they are all able to boot from it.
The iBook also *does* start up from every other bootable CD I own.

Ideas?

thanks in advance
 
You know, that machine is soooo old, I would accept that it balks at some CDs and not others. Really. Perhaps you have an external firewire or other disk you can install Panther from.

Or make an install disk image of Panther ... that might be System Restore, but read up.
 
Thanks. Already tried making another CD, and it only happens with Panther. I even borrowed our disks from work. I ordered memory. Something tells me that's the answer.
 
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