Tiger 10.4 Upgrade Installation Errors

[Pi-Guy]

System:
Ibook G3 with OS X 10.2 (Panther)
640 MB RAM

Task:
Upgrading to OS X 10.4 (Tiger) with OS X Tiger install disks sent to me from Apple.

Problem:
Install seems to be working fine but then gives an error message.

Error message:
"There were Errors during the installation." "Please try again."

Attempts:
-Disk Repair with Disk Utility -> There were no errors.
-Permissions Repair with Disk Utility -> Fixed some permissions, but still doesn't work.

Symptoms:
-When I try installing again, it always asks for disk 2 (unless I boot directly into disk 1 to try it all from the beginning)
-I cannot boot back into the operating system. Even if I try starting up without the disks, it runs the installer and asks for disk 2.

 

[harryb2448]

When did Apple send you the Tiger discs? They should not do that for a G3. If they are silver grey model specific discs from another computer they will never install. Sure sounds like they are as you talk about disc one and disc two.