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upgrading OSX from 10.2.8
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chinese_fashion
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Jan 12, 2006, 12:24 PM
 
I need to upgrade to a more recent version of Mac OSX -- my current one, 10.2.8, no longer cuts the mustard. My questions are: 1) if I upgrade to 10.4.4 or the most current version, is the difference so massive that I will wreck my computer and lose precious files? 2) Is there a free upgrade to 10.3.x out there somewhere, or am I paying no matter what?

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wataru
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Jan 12, 2006, 02:45 PM
 
1. No.
2. Yes, you're paying no matter what.
     
Chinasaur
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Jan 12, 2006, 10:36 PM
 
You'll really appreciate the speed differential though.

Luck.
iMac - Late 2015 iMac, 32GB RAM
MacBook - 2010 MacBook, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM
     
alphasubzero949
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Jan 12, 2006, 11:40 PM
 
You have to buy 10.4.3 retail and then upgrade to 10.4.4 from there.
     
microsoftee
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Jan 13, 2006, 06:56 PM
 
Problem upgrading iMac from Panther to Tiger. Please help!

I have iMac Power PC G4, 700 Mhz, 128 MB RAM, CDRW and OS X 10.3 (Panther) running.

It boots up successfully from CD1 but after few minutes of acticity it just hangs up and only blue screen appears, there is no mouse pointer and nothing else, I waited for long time.

Someone suggested to upgrade firmware. I tried searching firmware upgrade on apple site, but didn't find any for my machine.

I also tried the trick by directly running file "OSInstall.mpkg" in "System\Installation\Packages" in CD1, it starts setup but after few seconds it gives the error "BaseSystem cannot be installed on this computer." "This software cannot be installed on this computer"

I have 128MB. Can this be the problem? Because it requires 256MB as in docs. I can't spend on RAM anymore, is there any solution to this.

Please help me to get out of this problem.

I am very thankful to u.
     
   
 
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