[ShaneHale7]

Welp back to hacking… still working on my Firewire iBook with a bad display.

What I want to do is, load a good OS (hopefully Jaguar) on the iBook HD, with Remote Desktop Client Installed (and running) as well as having AppleTalk sharing On. I hope in the future I will be able to get an airport card in there and manage it remotely as a AV sort of system.
I have the Generic Jaguar OS disks for any system (desktop or laptop), however, the installation configures the OS based on the system its being installed on.
I have been connecting the iBooks HD to my Gigabit system through a laptop HD adapter. The HD shows up fine and I can format, install, etc. etc. However when I installed an OS it configures it based on the system the HD is in. I have tried this with Jaguar and OS 9.2.1 which came with my newer DUAL USB iBook.
Any suggestions on how I might be able to pull this off would be VERY much appreciated.

[tooki]

According to Apple, Mac OS X installs are not hardware-specific. However, the recommendation for system administrators is to always install on the newest machine the build will be used on. (Remember, also, that pretty much all the Macs that officially support OS X are "UMA" machines -- Unified Motherboard Architecture -- which means that they use the same basic software. OS X installs it all, since every machine it installs on has similar software requirements.)

Mac OS 9 easy installs are hardware-specific, but by doing a manual installation, you can just add on the laptop-specific control panels and extensions. A laptop will boot just fine without the extra stuff, though. It just isn't an optimal install.

tooki

[ShaneHale7]

Well I'll give it a shot again. I tried using my 9 disks from my iBook and it wouldn't install because the drive was in my Gigabit G4.

I'll switch to my universal jaguar disk. And try again. Thanks!

Shane Hale