Problems and more problems help me downgrade

i have a broken superdrive on my powerbook so i cannot use any cds right now, i went on my old computer and made a disc image of the mac os x cd using disk utility. i have a partition on my hard drive so i can restore the disc image onto that and boot up from that but it either doesnt let me restore or it restores but when i boot up from it, it just stops at a blue screen

What are you downgrading from and why? I feel like we have somewhat of an incomplete picture here.

cwa107 said:

What are you downgrading from and why? I feel like we have somewhat of an incomplete picture here.

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10.5.6, it just has too many problems and leopard took away too many features that i want

May I assume you want to go to Tiger?

I know this doesn't help, but FWIW, your PowerBook does not have a Superdrive since it doesn't burn DVD's.

iPod Nano said:

May I assume you want to go to Tiger?

I know this doesn't help, but FWIW, your PowerBook does not have a Superdrive since it doesn't burn DVD's.

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yes i want to go to tiger, no i have a superdrive that burns dl dvds but its "caved in" and doesnt work at all

Again, I think you are going to have to address the case issue, there are plenty of for parts 17" G4s on ebay that you can cannibalise for parts

So you got your optical drive replaced with a superdrive? Huh. Yeah, get one for parts. In fact I'm thinking of selling off my PowerBook soon.

well im gonna try to buy a used one but is there any way to install tiger on my computer without one?