On Sep 19, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > > Hi > > There is a way to hack around this. The 'grey' machine specific > discs have > a similar line in the osinstall file that limits which machines it > can be > installed on, similar to the 'badmachines' in retail Tiger discs, that > specifies which machines Tiger cannot be installed on. > > Remove this line and you should be able to get your eMac discs to > work on > any machine. > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, > hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich > Mac User > Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an > Apple > Mac. >
I made a gallant attempt ... but the process I used to re-create Disc 1 failed. I then tried to install using the original disks on my QS and failed. To create a modified disc 1: Under Leopard 10.5.5, I just created a Disk Utility cdr copy of the Tiger "Mac OS Install DIsc 1". Then I modified the OSInstall.dist file to exclude listing of PowerMac G3 (maybe I should do them all?) by clicking on the cdr file to Mount the Disk image, modify the file, and then created another cdr file of that modified Disk Image, and burned it to CD - all using Disk Utility.. I was using modified info on the link: http://www.index-site.com/bootcd.html On my PowerPC 9500, Xpostfacto didn't like it ... know what I might have done wrong? not make it bootable in some way? Xpostfacto started the process, rebooted, then went off somewhere ... and got stuck. The CD show up on my Desktop and looks like the original CD1, although it doesn't automatically Open like the original ... I seem to can't get past the fact that the eMac Panther Install CDs work, but my eMac Tiger ones do not. I just tried to Install Panther again on the system as it is setup ... and it accepts the Panther CDs but not the Tiger ones. Any hints on what to look for? Bill Connelly Musician and Painter artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio/ myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
