I've purchased and am using leopard on my C2D macbook. I was wondering would I be able to use the 2 OS X tiger CDs that came with my macbook to update an old eMac? Or can the CDs shipped with a macbook only be used for installation on the machine they came with?
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the install that came with your macbook will only install on macbooks and technically is intended to be licensed to that machine. so in other words they're bound by machine type, yes.
phalewhale
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In addition to this, I think the install disks that came with your machine are tied to that individual machine. Maybe by serial number or something? I tried running my iMac setup disk on another identical iMac and it didn't even work. Can't remember why I tried this... maybe just to see if it would work?
MisterMe
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What makes you think the two machines were identical? Did you run System Profiler on both?
phalewhale
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They were identical. I had an aesthetic problem with an iMac, returned it, but realised I'd kept the install DVDs in error. I tried the disks on the identical replacement and they didn't work. It threw up an error along the lines of this disk is not usable on this system. Something like that.
LOL if had my thinking hat on I would have realised sooner that my install cds are intel ones... D'oh
thanks for the responses anyway folks
thanks for the responses anyway folks