This may sound dumb. I will risk it. Do these machines have a CUDA switch?
Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Kris Tilford <ktilfo...@cox.net> wrote: > On Jun 29, 2016, at 9:08 AM, LochDhueDude <cmichaell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Have an iBook G4 with a corrupted Leopard install. > > > It won’t Safe Boot by holding the Shift key at startup? If you can Safe > Boot, simply download and reinstall the 10.5.8 Combo Update, then you > should be good…remember, if you’re short on HD space, you might want to use > something like an older version of Monolingual to strip out the Intel code > from Leopard since Leopard is bloated with both Intel & PPC code and is > twice as big as necessary. > > I wanted to install Tiger and Classic Mode, or OS9 if possible. My 4 CD > set Tiger intaller wouldn't boot. A number of other DVD Tiger installers > wouldn't boot. > > > The 4 CD set often fails because of scratched CDs, but you don’t need all > the CDs, you ONLY need CD #1, the first CD to boot. If you can get CD #1 to > boot, then DESELECT all the OPTIONS so that it’s only installing the base > system software, then you can later navigate to any additional software you > need on the other CDs and install that by double-clicking the installer > packages, or better yet, just download the current versions from the > internet. IF you get CD#1 to boot and install Tiger, you will have access > to Software Update via internet, but I don’t think Safari is installed, so > you’ll need to manually install either Safari from CD#2, or download any > other browser beforehand and transfer it manually with a USB or local > network connection. > > Tried every OS9 installer I could find including last year's patched > 'OS9.2.2 for G4s including unsupported machines'. Nothing would boot except > OS X Server 10.4...so I ran the intaller, which worked but I can't find the > product key... > Any suggestions Bruce, et. al.? > > > Did you try the Netboot 9.2.2 free OS X installer package that you can > download from Apple? > <https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1192?locale=en_US> > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
