Thanks for all of your help, it's definitely saved me a lot of time and confusion. I wish there were torrent files of mac os's tho, I just spent fifty on this copy trying to get an older mac running only to fail...but you've been of much help THANKS!

Apple Black Macbook Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, . Might I install a copy of ubuntu then? As far as I know its the most recent version of it?

Lol, wow, I feel a little slow all the sudden...Thank you for inspiring me to more than skim the fine print, yes on my third try. It's version 10.3.5 to be exact.
I also have a copy of Ubuntu as a backup if nothing else, though I'd much prefer it be a Mac os (first experience owning one) but ...

Well I am pretty new to all of the macintosh world, though fairly familiar with pc's, (just to let u know off the bat) it's labeled as a restore cd. But I apologize for not having clarified this myself prior to my post but its "Mac osx 9" not "Tiger" as I had originally thought. I do apologize, but ...

So I have a macbook with no hd and no optical drive, I have an extra hd, which I've formatted for a mac os, and the discs for Tiger osx, but the only way I can think of to put the os onto the hd is by means of a usb flash drive, and I'm not sure what software can help me do that from windows. Does ...

k so I have an update: As I was looking closer at everything "under the hood", I noticed the cable running to the dvd drive was damaged, so I switched that out...tried again, same thing. The I realized the cable plugged into a card rather than the motherboard itself and that the cable that plugged ...

yes, the dvd is legitimate, and brand new so I don't think the problem. Maybe the change of hardware with my swapping out the cd drive for a dvd drive is the problem? Any suggestions on what I could try next? I really do appreciate your help, it's been a long road of issues trying to get this ...

ok, so the drive that was in it before was just a cd drive so I swapped it out for a dvd drive, (thats what the os is on) and I turned it on with the disk in, holding down "c" and the same blinking folder is still what I'm getting. The fact that I'm using a pc keyboard wouldn't effect that would it ...

well, I'm not exactly sure what info to look for in distinguishing which model it is, but it says 400mhz/mb cache/28mb sdram/rage 128 16mb
6gb hd/cd/mdm I got a copy of the tiger os and I'm kinda stumped now as to what to do next....put the disk in, turned it on, and it does nothing but give me the ...

So I bought this blue and white powermac 3g at a goodwill store, knowing a good share about pc's and nothing at all about macs. It has a blinking folder with a wuestion mark on it ever time I turn it on. I finally decided the only way I'd be able to figure out fixing it would be to reinstall the os ...