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Tiger at a magnifying glass: Tolerating OSX (starting with Tiger)
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aha - must write that on the cover.
Thats correct, Amethyst. I didn't buy this iBook brand new. Have Leopard 10.5 but that tells me its only for updating 10.4 - which of-course it cant find.
Do have a dvd I purchased of snow leopard... but for some reason at bootup, pressing C doesn't find the dvd, nor does Option list it as a bootup option. ???
I was a bit lost at this point ...but on looking thru a canister of old DVDs with early Mac stuff found one labeled 10.4....and that one is working.
Yep - 10.4.4 installed and working.
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Question re OSX on an iBook PPC - does the touch pad work with a double tap as a left click.?
Just now I noticed it doesn't. Doesn't in Lubuntu either... but when I tried a live dvd of Void Linux with the Enlightment DE, a double tap works. (Have I just not found the right setting to change for that?)
Thats correct, Amethyst. I didn't buy this iBook brand new. Have Leopard 10.5 but that tells me its only for updating 10.4 - which of-course it cant find.
Do have a dvd I purchased of snow leopard... but for some reason at bootup, pressing C doesn't find the dvd, nor does Option list it as a bootup option. ???
I was a bit lost at this point ...but on looking thru a canister of old DVDs with early Mac stuff found one labeled 10.4....and that one is working.
Yep - 10.4.4 installed and working.
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Question re OSX on an iBook PPC - does the touch pad work with a double tap as a left click.?
Just now I noticed it doesn't. Doesn't in Lubuntu either... but when I tried a live dvd of Void Linux with the Enlightment DE, a double tap works. (Have I just not found the right setting to change for that?)
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Snow Leopard is Intel-only so won't boot on an iBook.
As for using the Leopard upgrade/drop-in disc to do a full Install, I found this but don't know if it'll work.
As for using the Leopard upgrade/drop-in disc to do a full Install, I found this but don't know if it'll work.
This is the correct machine ID. For some reason Apple identified every iBook as a "PowerBook x,y".
The iMac line is even more confusing: tray-loaders are all "iMac, 1", and Intel iMacs are "iMac x,y", but G3 slot-loaders and iMac G4's/G5's are all "PowerMac x,y". Only Apple knows why.
And the eMac & Mac mini G4 are "PowerMac x, y" too. Nothing beats the Xserve G4 & G5's ID tho: "RackMac x,y".
RackMac should be the rapper alter-ego of someone here who only sings about vintage Macs
If I ever have a rapper alter-ego, I'm naming it "DiffyQ" xD
Snow Leopard is Intel-only so won't boot on an iBook.
As for using the Leopard upgrade/drop-in disc to do a full Install, I found this but don't know if it'll work.
..that looks an interesting alternative, Amethyst - but seeing that dvd install seems to have worked ...I save that for 'if theres a next time' to try.
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Ha - so my initial thought of having created a prob due to fooling round with distributions resulting in changed PC identification..was well off the mark.!!!
I kept thinking - where the heck is it getting this information from..?
Guess what I can learn from all this is - ignore whatever is presented as the machines identity.
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You can change the identifier by messing around in OpenFirmware - but there's no need to do so unless e.g. you want to fool a version of Mac OS into booting/installing on a machine it wouldn't normally see as compatible.
erm...a guy like me messing around in OpenFirmware...sounds dangerous.
Thanks for the info though.