Booting for Tiger

[shreddog]

I'm not a technical person so please excuse if this is an elementary question. My MBA is on it's way from Anchorage (can't wait) and I want to be ready for it when it arrives.

I currently connect to my work LAN through Cisco VPN. My IT group tells me that the Cisco VPN and/or the remote desktop software that I currently use is not compatible with Leopard. Can the MBA be bootable in either Leopard or Tiger?

Thanks.

[dyerucf]

As far as I am aware it will not work for MBA. You wont have any of the feature your need for the systems. No multi-touch, no Remote Disk, ect. You may be able to do it with VMWare but I wound not know where to begin.

[heatmiser]

I doubt you'll be able to get Tiger on an MBA for the same reason you can't on SR MBs: the graphics card has no Tiger drivers. In general, you can't run an OS older than the OS the laptop shipped with.

[canucks-17]

It won't be possible. X3100 drivers not available.

[shreddog]

OK thanks. I guess I have to get XP or Vista and use Bootcamp or Parallels.

:(

[mcvaughan]

I currently connect to my work LAN through Cisco VPN. My IT group tells me that the Cisco VPN and/or the remote desktop software that I currently use is not compatible with Leopard. Can the MBA be bootable in either Leopard or Tiger?

Thanks.

I use the Cisco IPsec VPN client on my MBP, running Leopard, with no problems. Your IT group is not in the know. :)

Edit: FYI, the version I'm sing is 4.9.01 (build 0080).

[shreddog]

Really? ok, that's encouraging. Can't wait to try it out.

It doesn't surprise me that my crack IT squad didn't know this.

Thanks!