[muglo] Re: Panther
- From: "Eric Dunbar" <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:58:13 -0500
On 19/03/06, Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 19-Mar-06, at 2:47 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > Is your Tiger disk perhaps a restricted disk -- i.e., you should only
> > be using it on a particular type of Mac?
>
> No. It is the version for G4 Laptops, newly from Apple with my new 1.5
> Gig.
Unless the laptop was the _exact_ same model there's a chance that
Apple engineered the 10.4 disk not to install.
> > Library folder in the System Folder? Huh. This should NEVER be the
> > case! The only libraries that exist should be:
> > /Library
> > ~/Library (where ~ means "home"... i.e. /Users/tee/Library)
>
> Exactly! I've never seen only a Library in a System folder before, at
> least one that didn't have all the other folders in it.
And there aren't any other folders kicking around? Probably means they
were messing around with OS 9 and mucked things up (is this a laptop
that could still boot with OS 9).
> > Reset the HD? Do you mean format the HD? Did you boot into the
> > installer and open up the disk utility?
>
> Yes, Format & of course I booted etc. Monday Larry will have to contact
> the previous owner & ask what he did; he is supposed to supply the
> original disks anyway.
> Just wondered if there was another way to format the drive, but it's
> Larrys problem now.
Unless the disk is not supported by the disk utility (HIGHLY unlikely)
it would reformat. You probably were in a wrong screen or something
(you did boot into the installer portion of the installer disk and
tried to reformat the drive before installing by opening up the Disk
Utility, right?).
I guess you can't experiment now anyway.
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