I’ve installed ubuntu on my old ibook yesterday. It’s been quite simple, I must say, I like the live-system / install thing they’ve got.
So, installation went on and, even if slow, eventually completed. This morning, I opened the ibook and tried to boot. Did not work.
I waited several hours and tried to boot. Did not work, either. Ever since I’ve got that ibook, it has this one single defect: sometimes, maybe once every first or second month, the harddisk does not start up. I know that I should have reported this back to Apple right after I noticed it the first time, within the guaranty – but that’s long ago.
Jan told me, he’d have a spare laptop harddisk wondering whether it’d fit into a mac. I guessed that it did, so we decided to risk the operation (in the true sense of the word) and started googling around on how to replace a disk in an ibook.
Right the first result in google did match our needs – a recipe with explanation and pictures:) Opening an ibook basically means finding every screw and searching a suitable screwdriver for it. At the end of the opening progress, we’d have around twenty screws screwed out of the ibook – each of one group of at least four sizes and forms. Our reference website did mention this and proposed to draw pictures with where which screw came from – a hint, we deliberately had disregarded:)