On Nov 17, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Paul Stamsen wrote:
It sees the disks. Just won't boot from them. I've tried all three methods.
All these posting about whether or not you need XPF and we still don't know "what happens" when you try to boot the disc? For example, you say "all three methods", but I can think of a lot more than three.
If the install disc mounts on the Desktop under your currently installed 10.2.3 (why are you not at 10.2.8?), then the first method is to double-click the "Install OS X" icon of the install disc.
Other methods would be to select the disc in Startup Disk, or reboot holding the "C" key.
XPostFacto is NOT needed for the B&W, but can be very helpful. For example, if the installer disc has a system check, XPF "sometimes" can bypass that system check, enabling these grey discs to work on any Mac. Another thing that XPF can do is enable Firewire booting, which I don't believe was supported on the B&W. XPF also offers a GUI for enabling certain boot flags permanently, so XPF can add some functionality to the B&W that isn't easily available otherwise.
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