On Sep 19, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Ocean268 wrote:
I have 3 clamshells (300) mhz os 10.3 that I would like to upgrade to
10.4.
Any suggestions?
Any clamshell with Firewire can install 10.4 without any tricks. For
clamshells without Firewire, here are some options:
If you have the Tiger CD set of 4 CDs (much rarer than the DVD), you
can install without a DVD drive. These sets are so rare that buying a
set is nearly impossible, but they're available on most P2P sites.
Even with the 4 CD set you'll need either XPF 4 to bypass the install
check; or to modify the OSInstall.dist file to avoid the installer
check. If you use XPF 4 to help boot the installer CD, you DON'T need
to install the XPF 4 stuff onto the HD, and you can boot a totally
clean OS without any XPF needed after completing the installation.
Another option is using an external USB drive which can boot on the
clamshell, albeit slowly. You could use an external optical DVD drive;
or you could clone the installer DVD onto a USB stick, and then modify
the OSInstall.dist file on the USB stick and boot this USB stick to
install onto the HD. To boot an external USB optical drive, the drive
must be self-powered and already have the CD in it ready to go. You'll
use the "Option key" at boot to select the USB drive, or select it
from OS 9.2.2 Startup Disk. The clamshell WILL NOT boot USB from OS
X's Startup Disk, so if you don't have OS 9.2.2 installed, you must
use the Option Key, which is often finicky and can take many tries
before you're offered the USB drive.
Moving a previously installed HD into the clamshell is another option,
and since most clamshell's need a newer, faster, larger HD, this is
the option of choice if you need to upgrade the HD also.
I've never tried cloning over a network, but perhaps this is possible
also? To do this, the clamshell would need to be booted from an
external System over USB, or have a 2nd partition on the internal HD
to boot from. Then you'd mount the networked HD and clone it onto the
clean partition or internal HD. I believe Carbon Copy Cloner supports
networked drive cloning, so this may be an option, albeit a difficult
option. I suspect CCC doesn't run well on Panther? There is a version
of Disk Copy called Disk Copy 6.5b13 that runs in OS 9.x and will
clone an OS X System, but Tiger may be too new for this to work
correctly? I don't think networked cloning is a good option, but it
could possibly work?
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