Big blabber ahead. You've been forewarned.
I’ve had trouble with Tiger 10.4 on an MDD, a Quicksilver and
a B&W G3. Maybe not the exact trouble, but possibly related.
(Oh yeah, and a G3 Powerbook too.)
If you’ve never had any version of OS X on your iBook previously,
every version from 10.2.1, to 10.3.9 Panther and 10.4 Tiger will ask
to update your firmware on the iBook. I’ve even gone so far as to begin
with
OS 10.2.1 Apple Install disks and then work up to 10.4, installing
10.3.9 (and firmware updates) along the way. Superstitious? Maybe.
Your firmware may not have ever been updated (may be why you
can’t “see” the installer? And, even if you’ve had OS X installed before,
it won’t hurt to go ahead and make certain that everything is “fresh”.
A systematic, linear path progression from early OS X to OS X 10.4.
On the G3 with a single hard drive, I used the
Disk Utility [10.4 (v145)]on the 10.3.9 Tiger install disk to reformat the drive into two partitions
before I ever even installed
any OS… OS 9 or OS X. Making certain to
check the “install OS 9 driver” box for both partitions. Then I install OS
10.3.9 first, on the
second most partition… before later installing OS 9
on the
first partition, afterwards. (Of course, option-key booting CD.)
Now, it’s a
common practice to use Drive Setup 1.9.2 or even 2.1 …if
you’re only going to install OS 9 on your machine
BUT, I’ve found that
using the
Disk Utility 10.4 v145 (or whatever version might be on, other
than the Panther 10.3.9 CD installer CDs… which will allow you to check
the “Install OS 9 driver” box)… may provide you more “happiness” if you
intend to have OS X and OS 9 cohabitating on the same hard drive.
Partitioned!I installed OS X
over OS 9 when OS X was first introduced, (as was the
standard practice at first) both on my G3 Powerbook and the B&W G3.
The once stable B&W G3 and the PB began acting quite a bit less stable.
The Powerbook became painfully slow. The B&W… well, I quit using it
until just recently. The G3 Powerbook is an OS 9-only machine once again.
But, should I ever consider having OS X of any flavor on it… I’d go this
route described above. The B&W G3 is now once again very stable with
OS 9.2.2 on the first partition and OS 10.3.9 on the second.
If you’re able to install 10.4, 10.3.9 or even 10.2.1 in this manner,
reformatting, partitioning and then installing any version of OS X
before OS 9… you can then relegate the later installed OS 9.2.2
version as your “go-to” OS 9 for “Classic”, within OS X AND still
be able to boot from the OS 9.2.2 partition independently as you
may (and certainly should) wish.
Now, you may have already solved your install problem, If so,
congratulations. Do provide details and please advise and I’ll
delete this wordy diatribe. But if not, maybe you might want to
give this slightly arduous route a try?
You posted in the correct spot. I don’t believe that
you’ve been the recipient of much actual “help”.
Hope THIS does help.
Addendum: *The firmware notion may be entirely bunk, as
when booting from most installer CDs, this should load the
necessary “bits” that enable the installer to “work” and for
the disk to be both recognized & mounted. I tried multiple
Tiger 10.4 install CDs on the MDD but it simply would not
work without first installing either 10.2 or 10.3. The partition
scheme detailed here does help with overall stability issues
between OS 9 and OS X and the formatting routine is also
muy important. IMHO
The OS 10.3.9 installer CD info notes a Firmware update of
either 4.17 or 4.18 ...being necessary.
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