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OS X on iBook G3
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Andrew Stephens
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Aug 12, 2008, 11:35 AM
 
I;m trying to slap OS X 10.4 onto an iBook G3 running 10.0 and 9.1. The Tiger installer tells me it can't install on the disk (got around 6GB free on a 10GB HDD)

NO firmware updates needed on this Mac, does anyone know why the installer might not like it?

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Andrew

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stevebez
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Aug 13, 2008, 01:49 AM
 
What are the specs of your iBook? Processor speed, ram, etc.
     
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Aug 13, 2008, 02:43 AM
 
Are you using a retail 10.4 DVD, or one that came from another computer?
     
chichow
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Aug 14, 2008, 09:14 AM
 
You can also install to another external FW disk on another machine and then just DD it over to the ibook G3
     
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Aug 14, 2008, 12:29 PM
 
Just for reference, I installed Tiger on a 700 MHZ G3 iBook (20 Gb HD) using an external DVD player. No problem at all.
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Aug 14, 2008, 12:43 PM
 
Yeah I'm also running Tiger on a G3 iBook with a 500MHz proc, 640MB RAM and a 10GB HDD. It didn't give me any problems when I went to do the installation and it was a retail Tiger disc.
     
   
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