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The question mark is the Mac telling you it cannot find the Operating System when booting up. When you put in your disc and turn on the machine (After you hear the chyme but before the ? folder) hold down the option (alt) key. From there you can choose your Operating System Disc.
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The question mark is the Mac telling you it cannot find the Operating System when booting up. When you put in your disc and turn on the machine (After you hear the chyme but before the ? folder) hold down the option (alt) key. From there you can choose your Operating System Disc.

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If you iBook ejects DVD with system installation then it's not proper version for your version of computer.
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If you iBook ejects DVD with system installation then it's not proper version for your version of computer.

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For an IBook, it may be a powerpc processor, so you are limited to Leopard, Tiger, Panther. I have Tiger on my iBook G4, just upgraded from Panther. EBay has sellers with iBook compatable OS disks.
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For an IBook, it may be a powerpc processor, so you are limited to Leopard, Tiger, Panther. I have Tiger on my iBook G4, just upgraded from Panther. EBay has sellers with iBook compatable OS disks.

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I have a Apple I Book M6497 that I bought without an operating system, I also bought a operating system disc that I want to install but the only thing that happens when I start the computer all I get on the screen is a question mark ? and a face flashing in a small folder&gt; I would like to know what I need to do to get the computer up and running.
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I have a Apple I Book M6497 that I bought without an operating system, I also bought a operating system disc that I want to install but the only thing that happens when I start the computer all I get on the screen is a question mark ? and a face flashing in a small folder> I would like to know what I need to do to get the computer up and running.

error message when turning on my apple computer

Apple's early computers ran on a variety of operating systems, including a Pascal version and one based on CP/M, before releasing its ProDOS with the advent of its 16-bit computer. With the release of the Lisa, which had its own OS, Apple and computing entered the graphical age; it was followed by the Macintosh, which offered a series of "System" operating systems. Other Mac operating systems included PowerPC until Apple acquired NeXT and folded it into the Mac OS. Current operating systems for Apple devices are Mac OS-X and iOS.