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OSX installation question

MotionMan

MotionMan

Lifer
I just bought an old Mac Mini (G4 1.5 GHz). I have the OSX install discs from two different Intel Minis; an older 1.83 GHz model and an early 2009 2.0 GHz model.

I have been unsuccessful in getting a fresh install of OSX from those discs to work on the G4.

Is there no way for those discs to work or is there a trick I am missing.

Thanks.

MotionMan
 
jonesthewine said:
The G4 has a Power PC processor, I think...and OSX will not run on those, as it needs an intel processor.
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I believe this machine should be able to take everything up through Leopard. Snow Leopard is the version of OSX that can not run on a PPC.

MotionMan
 
My problem may have to do with the install DVDs being unit specific. I guess the discs know the difference between the Intel and PPC Minis???

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
My problem may have to do with the install DVDs being unit specific. I guess the discs know the difference between the Intel and PPC Minis???

MotionMan
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Very possible, i think i recall them not even sometimes working between revisions using the same processor, just minor incremental upgrades.
 
OS X installation discs that came with your Mac Minis only have the Intel binaries anyways. They are also specific to your machine so you can't do it anyways.
 
*never mind that was a volume license*

However, you might be able to get away with buying a cheap volume license media only, because technically you have a license to install already (by owning a mini) and I've never seen a osx disk have a cd key check, so it's all the same anyway.

You also might be able to call apple support and get a replacement disk for a small fee.

here's that link to the volume license http://www.google.com/products/cata...id=6216782935308375362&sa=title&os=tech-specs
 
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I was able to boot the Mini up again (For a few days I had had to relinquish the monitor I was using) and it turns out the installed OSX is 10.5.8. I believe that is the last non-Snow Leopard.

Though I would like to do a clean install, I have deleted all the of existing logins and created a new one and all looks pretty clean.

Better than nothing, I guess.

MotionMan
 
A new user account will actually do wonders to fix any problems you might be experiencing.

If you want a clean copy of Leopard, then you should try contacting Apple about getting new Restore Disks for the Mini, I have never tried this but it should be fairly straightforward, and hopefully not too expensive.
 
I needed new restore discs for my Mini a few years ago and they were $40, I believe. Not sure if it's gone up since then.
 
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