I have someone else's OSX version 10.4.6 discs that came with his computer and I want to upgrade my G4's OSX v. 10.3 with them. But when I try to, it reboots, thinks for a while, shows a blinking question mark icon, then gives up and boots 10.3. Is there any way to trick it into installing on my comp, even though it's not the original hardware the discs shipped with?
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Anonymous2007-02-22 23:01 ID:8naiKzYM
what do you get in verbose?
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Anonymous2007-02-22 23:56 ID:yVqkU+uM
Okay. I put the 10.4 disc in the drive, it autoruns and I click on the installing icon. It opens a window that tells me to reboot the computer to install OSX 10.4. I click the "Reboot" button and it shuts down. When it reboots, it shows a blank gray screen for a minute, then a little folder icon with a question mark that blinks back-and-forth from a question mark to a Mac smily face. After doing that for a minute, it blanks out for a couple seconds and shows the bootup screen for OSX 10.3 (which is installed).
I assume this happens because the disc recognizes that it's not being installed on the computer it came with. If this is true, is there a known workaround?
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Anonymous2007-02-23 18:42 ID:v1KFJIEV
Even OS X 10.3 can run the latest versions of Opera!