any help is very appreciated cause i need to run the mac in the next days
hi!
first, i've read hundreds of threads regarding this problem.
and in the instruction from jorgem there is talk of an imac.
but what's the deal when i only got the imac alu dvd's but no imac?
so i don't know if it's possible and if so, what's exactly to do?
any help is very appreciated cause i need to run the mac in the next days....
thx alot and best regards
OK - I am going to do this ONE MORE TIME, and ONE TIME ONLY.
I am doing this as a FAVOR, I am EXTREMELY BUSY and do not have time to spend my life correcting Apple's f**ckups.
If you read the posts from me (postguru), you will find detailed instructions on installing Tiger on your Jan 08 Mac Pro.
But here is the summary of the posts -
DO NOT STRAY from these instructions - there ARE other methods such as the one detailed by jorgem - but these other methods are NOT for beginners, and they have not been very successful for the majority of users if you read the posts.
OK, here you go -
1). This is MOST important! You MUST start with an ALUMINUM iMac with a Radeon 2600XT card - which leaves out the 2.0 GHz iMac since it only has a Radeon 2400. The 2.0 GHz iMac MIGHT work, but I have not tested it and the purpose of this post is to give you instructions on what DEFINITELY WILL WORK, not what MIGHT work! I personally used the 24" Aluminum iMac, and this is the ONLY model that I will GUARANTEE to work.
2). You must have a successful installation of Tiger on this iMac, and update it to 10.4.11
You have two options on the next step - so I numbered them 3A and 3B - you can choose either one, although I prefer 3A
3A). Put the Hard Drive that you want to use as the Mac Pro startup Drive into an external Firewire case, and then 'Clone' the iMac Hard Drive to the external Firewire drive. You can use one of several utilities for this and probably the most popular one is Carbon Copy Cloner, but I have NOT had much success with Carbon Copy Cloner myself, so I prefer Personal Backup X4 from Intego. You can download a 30 day trial from
www.intego.com if you don't want to buy it. Then all you need to do is install this 'Cloned' Hard Drive in your Mac Pro and your are DONE! You will have a PERFECTLY good Tiger boot disk with EVERYTHING working, including Quartz Extreme, support for ALL the RAM, even MULTIPLE monitor support!
3B). Make an Image File of this iMac's Hard Drive (a dmg file). To do this, you MUST be booted from an external hard drive (which means you would have to make a Clone of your iMac's internal Hard Drive just like in step 3A above anyway - which is why I recommend using 3A). Then create the dmg file on the external Hard Drive using Disk Utility.
Once you have the dmg file, you can use ANY PPC or Intel Mac with Firewire to install the DMG file to your Mac Pro. Either copy the dmg file to the Mac that you will be using, or simply use the external hard drive that you wrote the dmg file to. Hook up this Mac to your Mac Pro using Target Disk Mode, and then install the dmg file unto your Mac Pro's Hard Drive using Disk Utility. Once the dmg is installed, your are DONE! You will have a PERFECTLY good Tiger boot disk with EVERYTHING working, including Quartz Extreme, support for ALL the RAM, even MULTIPLE monitor support!
A few points to note -
1). You CANNOT use the Tiger install disks from your Mac Book Pro, your Intel iMac, your pre-08 Mac Pro, or ANY MAC for that matter - you are just asking for trouble if you try this.
You may get a 'partially' correct Tiger install, but that is all - and it will never work correctly.
2). I have helped NUMEROUS Pro Tools users to setup their 08 Mac Pros with Tiger, and they are all working fine. One fellow even drove 4 hours to my home to copy my Image File, and his system is working fine (this was 'Salt').
3). I have offered to post this Image File to a file hosting site if anyone has a paid subsciption to a site that can handle uploading and hosting a 6GB file. I have had several suggestions to this post - none of which are acceptable. I am offering this as a favor, and as I am extremely busy trying to make a living and live my own life, I posted this offer with the intention of finding someone that has access to a PAID subscription to any decent file hosting site. In this case, it is a simple task for me to upload the dmg file for all to use.
But I have gotten suggestions ranging from 'stripping' down the system by removing all the printer drivers, other language support, and 'junk', to splitting the file into 100MG pieces, to downloading and using a free 'torrent' client.
I am sure that those making these suggestions are doing so with the best intentions, but they are NOT practical - as everyone of these suggestions will take up MORE of my time just to do - I am NOT a high school student sitting at home with nothing but time on my hands!
My wife has ALREADY jumped all over me because of all the time I have already spent getting her Mac Pro working with Tiger and then for all the time I have spent helping others get their Mac Pros running, and I haven't even finished my Taxes yet.
So - my offer still stands - but ONLY if someone has a hosting site that I can SIMPLY upload my dmg file to.
NOTE - This is my last post on this subject - if you decide NOT to follow these intructions and get into trouble, caveat emptor!
PS - If you are following these instructions and have a question, I WILL reply to answer your question.
Good Luck All,
Joe
