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Hey all,
I brought a Mac Mini G4 off eBay for a reasonable amount of money, and it came with Tiger installation discs. It had Leopard installed on the Mac Mini and I said to the seller I'd format it (as it has his licenses on the computer and I don't want to get him in trouble).
Here's what I did:
Booted the Mini, inserted Mac Mini G4 Install Disc 1 when it came on the 10.5 Desktop. Rebooted and it started booting from the disc after the "Dahhhhhhh!" chime.
Apple grey logo appears. The spinner starts spinning. After a moment, it goes dark grey and says "You need to reboot your computer". Text appears on the screen; it says:
System Spec: PowerPC G4 Mac Mini @ 1.33Ghz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD, Combo CDRW/DVD Drive.
I suspect that Leopard upgraded some CPU related hardware device and now Tiger isn't liking that upgrade.
Is it possible to get Tiger installed on the Mini? I know you're possibly thinking "You n00b, Leopard > Tiger" but I want to see what Tiger is like.
Cheers,
HappyMac64
I brought a Mac Mini G4 off eBay for a reasonable amount of money, and it came with Tiger installation discs. It had Leopard installed on the Mac Mini and I said to the seller I'd format it (as it has his licenses on the computer and I don't want to get him in trouble).
Here's what I did:
Booted the Mini, inserted Mac Mini G4 Install Disc 1 when it came on the 10.5 Desktop. Rebooted and it started booting from the disc after the "Dahhhhhhh!" chime.
Apple grey logo appears. The spinner starts spinning. After a moment, it goes dark grey and says "You need to reboot your computer". Text appears on the screen; it says:
PANIC: Unable to find driver for device 'PowerMac10,2'
....blah blah panic stack info etc blah blah...
Darwin Kernel v9.0 (other info on this line)
PANIC: We are hanging here...
System Spec: PowerPC G4 Mac Mini @ 1.33Ghz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD, Combo CDRW/DVD Drive.
I suspect that Leopard upgraded some CPU related hardware device and now Tiger isn't liking that upgrade.
Is it possible to get Tiger installed on the Mini? I know you're possibly thinking "You n00b, Leopard > Tiger" but I want to see what Tiger is like.
Cheers,
HappyMac64