I understand what you mean, but in my case I was referring to things like PowerBook specific code being left out of the iMac disk (just a hypothetical example), and so on. Apple didn't remove PowerPC code until Snow Leopard, even from Intel builds, which is why installing Snow Leopard opens up a couple gigabytes of free space. Also, I was just saying that misterbleepy's logic was reasonable. I don't know any details about the various machine-specific disks other than the fact that certain disks will refuse to install on machines other than the ones they were designed for.
Steven On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote: > Not necessarily though. I was able to boot from and install Mac OS X Leopard > on my G4 iMac 800 using my Macbook Pro system install disk version 10.5.2. It > had both the PowerPC Code and the Intel code even though it was specifically > designed for the intel machine. I am not lying, go check it out for yourself. > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Tina K. <penguir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2010/11/30 11:38, Steven so eloquently wrote: > That sounds right. If you'll remember, when Snow Leopard came out one > of the biggest improvements was gigabytes of hard drive space freed > up, since there was no more doubled PowerPC code. I think it is > reasonable to assume that a retail disk installs all possible > software while machine specific disks are more optimized. > > Thank you misterbleepy and Steven, that is good to know. > > > Tina > > -- > > iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR > Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 > > Power Mac June 04 2GHz G5DP 8GB RAM GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL 256MB Leopard > 10.5.8 > > PowerBook G4 15" HiRes DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB DDR > Leopard 10.5.8 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
