On Aug 29, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Bill Brock wrote: > Do you if I can then use my macbook discs to install the operating > system on the machine through a external DVD-rom after i swap the hd > and ram?
Two issues you will run in to. 1: The install discs for a specific machine only work with that specific machine. So you can't use the MacBook one to install on a Bondi iMac. 2: You need to boot from the install disc, and the Bondi iMac only has USB 1 and doesn't support booting from it. So there is no way to boot the Bondi iMac from an external DVD. What you CAN do is pull the hard drive out of the bondi and then do the OS install using a supported machine to the hard drive connected to said supported machine as an external drive. Then put the drive back in the Bondi. However, this method may still fail for you because you have a MacBook, which is Intel based. The Bondi is PPC based. I don't know what happens when you try to take an Intel install of OS X and run it on a PPC machine. Someday I'll give it a whirl to find out, but I kind of suspect it won't work (I don't know how "Universal" the OS installs are when it comes to crossing chips). -chris <www.mythtech.net> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
