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Ok, here’s the deelio, my iBook has nothing saying about system preferences like it should. I had an iBook last year, and when i clicked the apple in the left corners, it says: About this Mac, Software Update…, Mac OS X Software…, Dock, Location, Recent Items, Force Quit…, Sleep, Restart…, Shut Down…, and Log Out. Where’s the system preferences?!?! HELP!

my ibook g4 say “unable to find driver for this platform” wat do i do?

i.e. lock it …so u need a password to see it

I recently put a new hard drive in my G4 Ibook.
Now I go to install MAc OS 10.4 by inserting the CD and holding down the “C” key upon start up.
The apple comes up however shortly after this I get a “Kernel Panic” and the screen says something about Power book 6.5 and driver error of some sort.
What should I do???
Please help! Thanks!!!
It is a MacBook CD that was my sisters, it’s also scratched. I was finguring that is the problem but I wasn’t sure.
I got my guide to take the computer apart from Ifixit and I don’t think the reassembly is the problem.

The hard drive was a brand new SEALED 80 GB Hitachi/ IBM travelstar for a G4 Ibook.

I am going to purchase system software tomorrow and hopefully that will help.
No, I have not partitioned the hard drive I didn’t think I would have to considering it was brand new.

I am considering purchasing a used one of these:

Mac OSX ibook version 10.1.4
-a 600 MHz PowerPC G3 processor with 512K on-chip level 2 cache
-a 12.1-inch (diagonal) active-matrix TFT display
-a 128MB SDRAM
-a 20GB Ultra ATA hard drive
-a CD-ROM optical drive

I am considering this for my first mac purchase, and will be using it only to surf, email and possibly java games on websites.

If you currently own/use or have used in the past, this system, please let me know your thoughts (pros/cons) on it, thank you so much for your help!
Thanks for the advice! He is asking $350 for it so I will keep looking.