About a year ago a friend at work gave me a iBook G4 with a corrupt 80gb HD, no discs or anything besides the power adapter. I couldn't find a reinstall disc so I loaded it up with Ubuntu Linux 10.10, and used it like that up until today, it was Ok except for the lack of flash support and no "Wine".
Well I finally found a 10.4 OS disc, and just got it installed, the first screen wanted me to put batteries in in the wireless mouse. I didn't have one so I plugged in my Dell USB mouse and it continued.
The install went smooth enough, but now the touch pad mouse and button wont work, keyboard works fine tho...
Safari crashes (is that the right term?) as soon as I google anything, but I'm downloading some java and OS X updates now, hopefully that will fix that problem.
But, what can I do about the mouse problem? Before today I had never used a Mac, besides my iBook Linux Franken-puter, so any advice (even if it's sticking to Linux), tips etc would be appreciated!
Thanks, Otis.
Well I finally found a 10.4 OS disc, and just got it installed, the first screen wanted me to put batteries in in the wireless mouse. I didn't have one so I plugged in my Dell USB mouse and it continued.
The install went smooth enough, but now the touch pad mouse and button wont work, keyboard works fine tho...
Safari crashes (is that the right term?) as soon as I google anything, but I'm downloading some java and OS X updates now, hopefully that will fix that problem.
But, what can I do about the mouse problem? Before today I had never used a Mac, besides my iBook Linux Franken-puter, so any advice (even if it's sticking to Linux), tips etc would be appreciated!
Thanks, Otis.