You have a retail version of Panther. It froze up during the installation.
I'm not sure of cause. I assume it is hardware related. Try a new keyboard & mouse. Try booting without keybard & mouse.
How much memory to you have? OS X was finickic about the memory. Lots of bad memory found.
See if you can get the machine to run awhile from the cd.
Run disk utility on the hd. See if machine runs.
Run terminal commands from cd.
The idea is to sort out what works hardware wise.
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>verify & repair your startup drive
To verify & repair you file system on the startup drive, you will need to run disk utility from you installation DVD.
This article will tell you how to get to disk utility. Once in a disk utility, you can go and attempt to recover the disk.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
To repair your startup drive, you will need to run disk utility from your startup DVD.
Mac OS X 10.4: About the utilities available on the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2055
How to run disk utility from your startup DVD.
- Insert your startup DVD into your reader. Power down your machine. Hold down to the c key. Power on your machine. This will bootup your startup DVD.
- This will bring you to a panel asking you for your language. Pick your language.
- You you come to the Install Mac OS panel. Do not install.
- Click on Utilities menu item. This will give you a pulldown list of utilities.
- Click on the disk utility.
- You are now in disk utility. Pick your disk. Click on repair it should be on the lower right of the panel.
- Once the repair completes successfully, you should update your permissions.