![]() ![]() I can still boot to a PPC Linux or PPC BSD disk fine. I made sure with each attempt that the image was "locked" before writing it, and set to "r- r- r-" permissions, and have tried every method formatting the USB disk to HFS, HFS+, and HFS+ Journaled, none of which worked. DMG and restoring it to the USB disk, I have tried writing the image in CDR/ISO format directly to the USB disk using both sudo dd if="image path" of=/dev/"USB disk number", as well as sudo dd if="image path" of=/dev/ r"USB disk number" bs=1M to no avail. CDR/.ISO image from the install disc, converting it to a. ![]() I have tried restoring the first CD directly to a USB 1.1/2.0 disk, I have tried ripping the. ![]() I have the Retail Universal Installer CD-R's (Yes I am positive they're retail) for OS X 10.2.0 Jaguar, as well as 10.3.9 Panther, however every attempt I have made to install both of these has failed. Now I have grown horribly tired of using a Command-Line only environment on it, and would like to pass it on to my daughter as my grandfather did to me. So I made a live USB of PowerPC Ubuntu and booted that, wiped the HDD and installed Ubuntu. When I did this it corrupted the boot sector of the HDD leaving it unable to boot OS X, however the HDD could be read fine from a live USB. This is where the real trouble comes in: One day while trying to upgrade from OS X 10.2.8 to 10.3 using the CD-R drive (before I had realized it didn't initialize boot discs) I had to hard boot the machine to shut it off. Given that it has a USB 1.1 port and my USB 2.0/3.0 flash disks are backwards compatible. Not to mention it has to be held shut with electrical tape because the locking mechanism has been broken for about five or six years. The drive is not "broken" per-say, however it usually takes up to an hour to initialize a CD-R, 20+ min to read a single sector, and NEVER recognizes any kind of bootable disc. ![]() The machine in question is an iBook G3 Clamshell (233MHz, 256MB SRAM, 16MB VRAM, 1xUSB 1.1 edition, 1997) with "New World" Open Firmware v4.1.7f (the latest version for that model.) The problem is that the CD-R drive has not functioned for about a decade. It would seem I am in a minor predicament with one of my older Macs. ![]()
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