my ibook wont boot cds

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okay here goes the long story . i bought an ibook dual usb 500mhz on ebay , planning on putting linux on it , so when i got it and tried installling linux i would get hardrive errors when the cd booted up and started installing now , i bought another apple hardrive for it on ebay put it in now i cant boot cds i hear it spinning when i hold c but it doesnt boot what should i do please help out here http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/mac_images/images/smilies/Frown.png
is there a wire that i could have left up plugged in the computer that would cause it to not boot the cd but spin the cd
 
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eilyasjaan said:
okay here goes the long story . i bought an ibook dual usb 500mhz on ebay , planning on putting linux on it , so when i got it and tried installling linux i would get hardrive errors when the cd booted up and started installing now , i bought another apple hardrive for it on ebay put it in now i cant boot cds i hear it spinning when i hold c but it doesnt boot what should i do please help out here http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/mac_images/images/smilies/Frown.png
is there a wire that i could have left up plugged in the computer that would cause it to not boot the cd but spin the cd
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I'm kind of confused what's going on with your iBook.

- Did the iBook ever boot up properly with it's original hard drive?
- Did the CD drive work properly with the original hard drive?
- What do you mean when you say you were getting hard drive errors? How do you know it was hard drive errors? What was/is happening?

Thanks,

- Nick
 
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okay sorry i know what i wrote must be confueing
1. i put the cd for linux and i held c and it booted the cd
2.during the installation the installer came up with a partition error at first
3. then i retied and i got curpurt files error
4. so tried another cd of linux
5. that cd did the same thing
6. so i took hardrive out and put it in my toshiba laptop it didnt pass the smart test
7. so i bought new hardrive put it in and now it wont boot the cd


thank you so much for your help so far
 
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no you dont need a partition for it , it is linux for ppc so they work just like osx would work
 
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but I'm assuming it'd write files to the hard drive at some point, in which case it'd need to be in the right format...
 

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