Problem installing OSX Tiger

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reppinbx

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I have a powerbook 15" 1.67ghz fully updated, currently running tiger without a problem. I wanted to do a fresh install because i'm selling it to a friend. The problem, is that instead of going into the actual installation, it reaches the blue screen before the language menu and just freezes.

I've resetted the nvram/pram, done a hd disk verify and repair, fsck in open firmware, changed the slot of my 1gb stick of ram, tried a cd version and a dvd version of Tiger (made sure the disks worked in my 17" powerbook 1ghz), tried booting off the cd via startup manager, via holding c, and through startup disk selection within tiger, and still I get the same thing. I have no clue what else to do (and I don't have a firewire cable to hook it up to my other laptop via target disk mode). it's got an 8x superdrive and a 120gb disk drive upgrade. Any suggestions?
 
I realized i was running on 10.4.5, not 10.4.6... I ran the update, and after updating everything, i ran the install again, and viola, it went in. the trackpad doesn't seem to be working, but i've got a usb mouse i can use off my pc. I just hope it will work once the install is done...
 
hm. Since you can't update the _installation disk_, it shouldn't make a difference, anyway. So I'm not sure what could've happened between your update to 10.4.6 (which, I assume, was made to the installed harddrive which you're going to erase, anyway?)...
 
Well, it turns out, that after the install, it turned off. Took a sec to turn on, and now won't boot up fully: the blue bar gets about 1/6th of the way, and it just freezes. I have no clue what it could've been (other than i did an archive install), and now i'm having the same problem, and I can't even get into the installation : / I just came from circuit city and radioshack, and neither of them have a 6pin to 6pin firewire cable. I think i'm screwed : /
 
OK.... After a nice long prayer, an hour long run to boca raton to get a firewire2firewire cable, reinstalling tiger via firewire target disk mode, and ending up with it still doing the same thing, i downloaded the update, and installed it via the same firewire target disk mode. Boot up, no problem.

A word of advice: DO NOT INSTALL A RETAIL VER. OF TIGER ON A NEWER POWERBOOK (unless you have a newer retail version that has 10.4.5 on it). If you do, make sure you another computer to be able to do everything through target disk mode.
 
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