Software Restore Question

Hello everyone, I'm glad to be here...

I'm currently using Leopard on my Dual Core notebook... however my wife's Powerbook is a G4 with 10.3... it is good for what she does, wich is simple vector graphic work... now, there's this issue she has with startup with the ubiquitous question mark folder we all dread... after 5-10 restarts it kicks in... so I do a Disk utility from my mac on it, says the drive is pristine.

So Software restore is called for... NOW THE ISSUE, Her mac system CDs have the 10.1 Mac OS... when I upgraded it, was as I purchased different macs... such as a 12" powerbook I had... which I sold over a year ago.

If I do Software restore, DO SOFTWARE UPDATES FROM APPLE UPGRADE the to at least the previous version Mac OS X, or do I get stuck with 10.1?

Hi and welcome.

You need the full install discs as software update will only update the installed OS to it highest level of released updates. The restore disc will take the PowerBook only back to X.1 or caveman days!

Why not look for Tiger OS X.4 as it will make a great improvement, especially if the RAM is about the 1GHz mark.