Hi all. To make a long story short, my install disks are at school and I'm home for the holidays. Also, I decided to get myself an early Christmas present, in the form of a WD Scorpio Blue 500GB HD for my MBP. After installing the HD, I realized my mistake; forgetting the install disks. Not to worry, I'll use an older MBP's disks. Not so- they are meant for a 2GHz Core Duo MBP, while my MBP is 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo. I, of course, tried anyway, and was greeted with the "Mac OS X cannot be installed on this volume" message. So, I grabbed some (10.4.5) Tiger retail discs and tried them.
Still nothing.
After searching for information about making bootable drives, etc, (I should mention that my bootable external FW drive refused to accept my password to login), I found a note about using the Restore tab in Disk Utility. So, I fired up my MBP in Target Disk Mode, and opened Disk Utility on the 2GHz MBP. I chose its hard drive as the source, and the Target Disk's HD as the destination to restore to. Leaving this for several hours, I can back to a computer that does boot into OS X. However, I am noticing that Airport randomly drops and gains a signal (you can watch it in the menu bar) and so my question is, Was this the right way to reinstall the OS? Is there a way to fix Airport, maybe by grabbing drivers off my backup drive? If so, what other drivers should be replaced? Can I reinstall the OS properly by reinstalling 10.4.11 update? Am I better off simply waiting to get back to school to do this properly? Thank for any input.
Still nothing.
After searching for information about making bootable drives, etc, (I should mention that my bootable external FW drive refused to accept my password to login), I found a note about using the Restore tab in Disk Utility. So, I fired up my MBP in Target Disk Mode, and opened Disk Utility on the 2GHz MBP. I chose its hard drive as the source, and the Target Disk's HD as the destination to restore to. Leaving this for several hours, I can back to a computer that does boot into OS X. However, I am noticing that Airport randomly drops and gains a signal (you can watch it in the menu bar) and so my question is, Was this the right way to reinstall the OS? Is there a way to fix Airport, maybe by grabbing drivers off my backup drive? If so, what other drivers should be replaced? Can I reinstall the OS properly by reinstalling 10.4.11 update? Am I better off simply waiting to get back to school to do this properly? Thank for any input.