On Jul 18, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Jul 18, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: > >> On 7/18/10 12:22 PM, "John Carmonne" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> AFAIK threre is no retail universal disc for Tiger Intel >> >> Tiger was compiled to run on intel only based machines so you can't run it >> on a non PPC machine. > > I believe you meant "PPC machine" rather than "non PPC machine" > >> Same with Snow Leopard. Since it was compiled as an >> intel stack it won't run on PPC. You can't hack that. You would have to >> write your own OS. > > I think John was talking about downgrading an Intel Mac that originally came > with Leopard back to Tiger? The problem here is that there is no "retail > universal" Tiger Intel disc available, they were all machine specific discs. > Such a downgrade installation would require changing the machine specific > OSInstall.dist file in order to install Tiger onto a newer Mac.
Thanks for that clarification, I have no intention of pirating any thing any more than the Apple reseller and Repair Depot do. The "DownGrade" is to put the machine back to new state. A CCC would've been in order here but some owners don't know about that stuff. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
