Re: Need help with Intel Tiger archive install

My understanding is that the install disks that come with Macs can
only be used with those computers. An appropriate update disk can
generally be used with any Mac, but you can't buy a Tiger Intel
update disk because all Intel macs came with Tiger and wouldn't need
an updater.

You either have to find the original install disks or use a Leopard
updater. There is an article on building a universal bootable disk if
that helps:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060322054212363

Vic

At 4:04 PM -0700 6/16/08, Rob Weinberg wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>I'm trying to do an "Archive Install" of an Intel Core 2 Duo iMac that's
>about a year and a half old - what I believe Apple calls "iMac (Late
>2006)" - one of the white plastic, "squarish" ones.
>
>But, the only Intel Tiger install disks I have are system disks that
>came with a more recent model of Intel iMac - the model with the rounded
>back. And, when I start up the older iMac on one of these and then
>choose English, it says it can't run on this computer.
>
>I would have thought that a Tiger Intel disk would install on any Intel
>iMac, but this seems not to be the case. Does startup fail just because
>the install disk is a bundled disk, and Apple prevents it from being
>used on any but the bundled model computer? Do you know if there is any
>way to get the newer Tiger Intel system disk to perform an install on
>the older Intel iMac?
>
>Optionally, does anyone have a Tiger Intel system disk that I could try
>on this users' white plastic Intel iMac? Apple no longer sells Tiger
>disks, though I suppose if I knew what to buy I might find one on eBay.
>
>Thanks -
>Rob
>
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