Trouble reinstalling Tiger

[mrzeve]

Hey all.

My sister just recently bought a Mac mini and her harddrive faulted. So she lost the Tiger cd and also recently bought a iMac G5 for her office.

However, when she tried to use the cd that came with the G5 to install Tiger, it gives a message like this application can not be installed on this computer.

What gives?

 

[strider42]

I don't know if apple still does this, but they used to make OEM cd's machine specific, and they couldn't be installed on a different type of machine.

 

[yellow]

What gives?

As noted above, the installer for the iMac is for the iMac and won't function on the mini.