[fibroptikl]

My parents bought an Apple Mac mini G4 back in April of 2005. It had Panther installed. I got the Tiger Upgrade CD for $10.

However, they don't use it that much and it's been more of a play machine for me (or it sits boxed up). Well, I had Ubuntu installed onto it, but I wanted to go back to OS 10.4

Since the OS 10.4 CD is an Upgrade, it wanted 10.3 installed on the drive. Well, I install 10.3, and go to install 10.4.

However, it still can't find "10.3 during the install".

Any ideas?

[reader50]

You may have to boot into 10.3 before it will register as valid. For example, no users have been defined before you boot into a fresh install.

You could also upgrade 10.3 to 10.3.9 before trying again.

[fibroptikl]

I have booted into OS X 10.3 already, and a user has been created.

I will upgrade to 10.3.9 and then try the upgrade.

[fibroptikl]

I upgraded from 10.3.7 to 10.3.9, and then rebooted to the CD and it worked.

It was able to find an install and I am able to install now.

Thanks for that - I never would have thought of it.