Re: Oldest Mac operating system for Sawtooth

2011-01-20 Thread Vanceone
A note to clarify: Yes, a Sawtooth shipped originally with 8.6. However, during it's production run that changed to be some version of system 9. As far as I know, actually getting 8.6 to run on a Sawtooth that did not ship with 8.6 initially is quite the task--it requires finding the appropriate

Re: Oldest Mac operating system for Sawtooth

2011-01-20 Thread Sean Carroll
OS 8.6 Such information is readily available at Everymac.com: Thank you, Fabian. I had been there and seen that the pre-installed OS was 8.6. I didn't see anything there that specifically indicated that OS 8.6 was the earliest *possible* that could be installed and run on the Sawtooth. I

Re: Oldest Mac operating system for Sawtooth

2011-01-20 Thread Sean Carroll
On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Vanceone wrote: A note to clarify: Yes, a Sawtooth shipped originally with 8.6. However, during it's production run that changed to be some version of system 9. Thanks for the tip. Hadn't even considered the possibility, and might have been in for a surprise

Oldest Mac operating system for Sawtooth

2011-01-18 Thread Sean Carroll
I'm wondering what the oldest Mac operating system is that I could install and run on my Power Mac G4 AGP. I researched it as best I could in order to avoid asking such a silly question here. No luck. One of the reasons I plan to keep this Sawtooth (or possibly another pre-Intel Power Mac) is to

Re: Oldest Mac operating system for Sawtooth

2011-01-18 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jan 18, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: I'm wondering what the oldest Mac operating system is that I could install and run on my Power Mac G4 AGP. I researched it as best I could in order to avoid asking such a silly question here. No luck. OS 8.6 Such information is readily