When I bought OS-X 10.1 from Other World Computing they sent me a set
of gray disks that said "eMac" on them. I called OWC up and told them
they'd made a mistake; I have a G-4, not an eMac. They told me that
they knew I had a G4 but that these gray eMac disks would install X on
ANY Mac capable of running X. Anyway X installed on my G-4 just fine
from these disks.
Tom
On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Bill Judson wrote:
<<
on 11/1/05 8:45 PM, Mike Abrams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the real deal on all those people selling the
grey OS software discs. Will they work in any Mac as
some claim or is it just the machine listed on the
disc?
Good question. I have an OS 9.1 disk from a Powerbook that will
install on
any machine I've asked it to. Performa 6300. Powerbook 3400c PPC 8600,
etc.
I have an iMac OS 9.0.4 disk that will not install on anything but the
iMac
(so far as I can tell). I doubt that there is a comprehensive answer
out
there, but if there is I like to know too.
--
All the Best,
R.A. Cantrell
I have a gray 10.2 disk for the 2002 iMacs that installs without
complaint
on my beige G3. This is an "install" disk. I also have gray "restore"
disks for 10.1.2 and 9.2.2, labelled for the iMac, & 9.2.2 for the
eMac,
that never would install anything on the G3.
However, when I look on those Restore disks using Terminal under X ("ls
-a"), I find an invisible directory on each called .images, with .dmg
files for X, 9.2.2, & apps like Appleworks, etc. (The X restore images
cover 3 disks.)
I can go into that invisible directory ("cd .images"), copy those .dmg
files to a hard drive ("cp * /[whatever the path you want]"), mount on
the
desktop, & copy to my heart's content -- at least the 9.2.2 disk image,
which produces a perfectly bootable system when copied to a disk (a few
aliases are screwed up), & the apps. I haven't tried to install a
10.1.2,
since I already have a perfectly good 10.2.x.
__
Bill
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