64 Responses to “Tiger on Clamshell iBook”

1. Mike Says:
   September 13th, 2005 at 20:20 CEST

   Use XPostFacto 4.0?

   http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto3.html

   “Works with “New World” machines that Apple dropped support for in 10.4 (such as the original iMac, original iBook, and the Lombard Powerbook).”

   Mike

2. Nate Says:
   September 15th, 2005 at 00:19 CEST

   Yes, but I still need a DVD device.

3. kurisu Says:
   September 15th, 2005 at 07:32 CEST

   You’re SOL : the only way is to get the drive out and install Tiger on it from another machine.

   Unless you’d be willing to :
   1 - create a bootable disk image of Tiger from Disk Utility and System Restore.
   2 - boot your iBook from a Panther CD made by BootCD
   (http://www.charlessoft.com/)
   3 - then from within the booted system, restore the disk image that you have made available through a network mount with Disk Utility to the internal HD.

   Disclaimer : I’m not even sure this would work, but theoretically it is possible and feasible (albeit slow and complicated)

   cheers.

4. Nate Says:
   September 15th, 2005 at 08:11 CEST

   I started to take apart the ‘Book today.

   It’s really complicated and a long process.

   I think I’ll try your solution, Kurisu. Brilliant idea!

5. Richard Says:
   September 16th, 2005 at 21:51 CEST

   Hey man, my brother is in a simliar situation as yourself. He has one of the first white ibooks without a dvd drive.

   http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/

   Go there and then click on the Media Exhange link and download the PDF and it tells you how to get the CD’s for your DVD that you bought.

   -Rh

6. jd Says:
   September 18th, 2005 at 02:14 CEST

   I have a tangerine clamshell 300 Mhz. I installed Tiger on an external usb drive from another Mac. Then I connected the external drive to the clamshell, and booted with the option key down. It eventually found the external usb drive. In the setup assistant shortly after the welcome screen, I told it to transfer my hard disk stuff - which put it all on the external usb drive. I completed the setup, then re-booted again off the usb drive and verified everything was there. I then wiped the internal drive, and used CCC (carbon copy cloner) to copy everything from the external to the internal. Then I booted off the internal - done! This took about 8 or so hours.

7. w00kie Says:
   September 18th, 2005 at 11:46 CEST

   ugh…
   looks like it’s not a walk in the park

8. Nate Says:
   September 19th, 2005 at 06:33 CEST

   Thanks jd!

   That’s basically what I did. I took an external USB hard drive and put Tiger on it. Then I copied a disk image of the Tiger install disk (hacked so it would install) and put it on that drive. I booted off of it by using the option-key selection and opened the OSInstall.mpkg installer package on the disk image and installed to the internal with that. It took a looong time, but now everything works!

   It’s pretty slow running on 128MB RAM… I’ll need to get some more.

9. Carlos Bragatto Says:
   September 27th, 2005 at 15:02 CEST

   Would you mind putting up a detailed step by step of what you did to install, like 1) got an external usb harddrive, 2) installed tiger on it with a supported machine, 3) used software xxxx to do yyyy and so on.

   Thanks, Carlos.

10. Bob Says:
    October 4th, 2005 at 17:46 CEST

    Just installed Tiger on a 500mhz iMac. Bought Tiger on CD’s (5) and installed from the CD. Worked really great.

11. Nate Says:
    October 9th, 2005 at 08:21 CEST

    Sorry, Carlos, I haven’t been checking these comments.

    1. Created a Tiger DVD Disk Image on another computer.
    2. Edited this disk image to enable it to install on unsuppported machines (do a google search for this, if you can’t find instructions just post a comment)
    3. Copied disk image to an external USB Hard Drive that contained Panther.
    4. Connected USB Hard Drive to iBook
    5. Held down option on boot and then selected the external hard drive as boot drive
    6. Booted off USB Hard Drive … waited (takes a loong time)
    7. Mounted disk image and ran the OSInstall.mpkg file.
    8. Installed (custom install minus languages and extra printer drivers)
    9. Booted off internal drive with Tiger now installed, no XPostFacto needed.

12. Rafael Pesquera Says:
    October 10th, 2005 at 22:05 CEST

    can anybody help me? I have a Powerbokk G3 Bronze, with DVd but no Fire Wire and i want to install Tiger on it. Is there any way to emulate a firewire port or a way to install tiger? thanks.

13. Matt Pipes Says:
    October 11th, 2005 at 20:48 CEST

    The CD sounds like the way to go, but to throw my 2 cents in, I installed Tiger on a blue and white G3 with no dvd, without using the Fire Wire ports by doing a network install via ethernet. Granted it took a while and required networking to another computer (my Powerbook) but if you have that option, it got the job done.

14. Matt Pipes Says:
    October 11th, 2005 at 20:52 CEST

    Hey Rafael,

    You don’t need Firewire for the install, but if you want to add it to your G3 Bronze you can get a PCMCIA Firewire card and you’re good to go. I think they even have firewire 400/800 combo cards now.

15. Rafael Pesquera Says:
    October 12th, 2005 at 03:02 CEST

    Thanks for the help.
    How can i install tiger via network?
    I have a G5 iMac on my network with Tiger installed.
    Any way to install it via Ethernet?
    When I try to install via DVD it says that it could not be installed on this computer.
    Thanks
    P.S. Hope for a prompt response.

16. Jakal Says:
    October 12th, 2005 at 16:02 CEST

    You could illegaly download the tiger boot CD’s (NOT DVD’S) burn them onto a disk and then install them!!

17. Aaron Fisher Says:
    October 23rd, 2005 at 09:59 CEST

    Simple, a little illegal, but if you already own a license. Download the OS X Tiger CD versions through bit-torrent or limewire. Burn them on another Mac, and install on your clamshell.

18. ChrisK Says:
    October 27th, 2005 at 17:04 CEST

    If you want to boot from a Tiger-Installer (copied to HD or from CD), the installer will just shut down the iBook after startup.

    I made it this way:
    You must have a Tiger-compatible-Mac with 2 Volumes, one empty and one with a running System. Install Tiger on the empty Volume and make an Image from this Volume.
    On the iBook you should have a 20 GB HD with 2 partitions. Again, one with a running System an one empty. Copy the Image with the installed Tiger to the partition with the System over a LAN-connection between your Tiger-Mac and your iBook. Then restore your Tiger-Image to the empty partition of your iBook.
    It works! And quite fast!

    (Sorry, if my english is not good)

19. Aaron Says:
    October 28th, 2005 at 02:28 CEST

    ChrisK, how do you restore a disk image to the empty partition on the iBook if you don’t have a system higher than Jaguar (which doesn’t have restore in the disc utility)?

20. ChrisK Says:
    October 28th, 2005 at 17:48 CEST

    Maybe with the Terminal?

    I had Panther on both Macs, so ist wasn’t a problem to make and restore the image.

21. Will Says:
    October 28th, 2005 at 19:08 CEST

    Luckily I have a mobile lab with 16 clamshells and they have FireWire. I installed Tiger on an iMac and booted to en external FW drive and used Disk Utility rip and image from the iMacs internal drive. Then I booted the iBook from the FW drive and reimaged its internal drive with the Tiger image.

22. Ming Says:
    October 29th, 2005 at 13:49 CEST

    I recently upgraded the original 6gig hdd in my 300mhz tangerine ibook. But before I put it in, I popped the new 40gig hdd into an external firewire case and installed tiger from a friend’s 1.5ghz powerbook. After installing the new HDD with tiger into the ibook, it booted up properly. The only gripe i have is that when the screensaver used is ‘computer name’, it shows ‘Ming’s Powerbook G4 15′.

    Someone posted earlier that there was a way to edit a tiger disk image to install on non- supported machine without xpostfacto. Can the person please post instructions? I can’t find it on google.

    Just wondering, what is shown on the ‘computer name’ screen saver if you install tiger through xpostfactor on the original ibook?

    Regards

23. Codyman Says:
    November 8th, 2005 at 17:13 CET

    My dad has an old iBook 300mhz clamshell without firewire. He still to this day uses 9.2.2 and doesn’t really seem to care. However, recently AOL released a Mac OS X app that allows you to tune into XM Radio streams which he desperately wants for his office. The only problem is that 10.4 doesn’t out of the box support his clamshell. If he upgrades he also wants new Microsoft Office since he uses a microsoft word copy from 1991 TO THIS DAY! Do you think if I can get ahold of some 10.4 CD’s I should update his ibook even though his specs are:
    iBook 300mhz G3
    No Firewire.. one USB 1.1 port
    6 GB Hardrive

24. Ryan Says:
    November 9th, 2005 at 20:03 CET

    I may need to do this in the next week or so. One question for you: can you post the link to get Tiger to install on supported machines? My searches all turn up XPostFacto, and it sounds like you’re talking about something else…

25. Applecollector Says:
    November 18th, 2005 at 22:31 CET

    Hello,

    I’m going to put Tiger Pre-Release BETA on my iBook clamshell becuase it’s more like panther and wont ruin my batt life!, wont use the processor excessively and i’ll have spotlight AND Dashboard!
    But now comes the problem of me takening it apart, i just dont have the power!
    Becuase i’m scared that i might break it!
    For Pics of the Tiger Pre-Release go to , http://www.applecollector.com/tigerpre/
    Thanks have fun!

    PS: if anyone can give me a good site which will tell me how to take it apart then please e-mail me!
    Thankyou!
    Bye

26. DiD Says:
    November 19th, 2005 at 21:50 CET

    quote
    “Edited this disk image to enable it to install on unsuppported machines (do a google search for this, if you can’t find instructions just post a comment)”
    /quote

    hi, I can’t find instructions so can you give us a link please ?

27. willie curran Says:
    November 25th, 2005 at 06:56 CET

    I installed Tiger on a 366 ibook Clamshell. used firewire to connect
    powerbook with dvd to ibook. chose dvd drive as boot disk and restarted, holding down T. booted
    ibook holding down option key. chose dvd drive for boot. installed.

28. quai007 Says:
    November 25th, 2005 at 16:29 CET

    Went through the whole process using external USB drive and was able to install Tiger on 300MHz ibook clamshell (no firewire) and was able to install the system software. When I try to start it up however, startup screen shows gray circle with line through it and system freezes - anyone else had this problem?

29. Nate Says:
    November 26th, 2005 at 10:22 CET

    Hmm… as far as I know, there is no machine check in Tiger itself, so that can’t be the problem. I would initialize the drive, and try a reinstall.

30. Jeff Says:
    December 2nd, 2005 at 06:24 CET

    http://www.sterpin.net/uk/clamshelluk.htm

    this is some fine instruction on taking apart a clamshell ibook. I’ve done it twice now, once for the hard drive (now 80GB) and once to replace the cd-drive. the cd drive is easy… the hard drive takes a while….
    http://caslis.com/mac/ibook/ibdrive.html (another how to)

    That Xpostfacto 4.0 seems to be doing its thing… Since my DVD don’t work in a cd drive… i just got some CD version ofa the internet…

31. Cynthia Cheney Says:
    December 24th, 2005 at 00:14 CET

    But how are these clamshells *working* in Tiger? Taking forever for screen redraws, scrolling in documents, etc? Will safari run with that old internal modem? Which common apps have you used and how are they doing?

32. Serena Says:
    December 31st, 2005 at 04:21 CET

    Having read through the above comments, I am wondering what the best option for my daughters computer would be. She has a grey colored clamshell ibook that does in fact have firewire capability, so it sounds like upgrading her to OS X is possible? I wanted to upgrade her to at least the 10.2 OS X that I have on my Powerbook. Is this operating system something that her ibook can successfully run with and can I just transfer the OS X through the firewire somehow? I need laymans directions please :), although I use the mac, I do not know how it operates from a technical perspective. I was also hoping to get a wireless card for her too, can these ibooks have wireless cards? I would appreciate any comments or suggestions thanks!

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    December 31st, 2005 at 09:47 CET

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34. Nate Says:
    January 13th, 2006 at 01:36 CET

    Serena - check out Installing Tiger via Target Disk Mode. Your clamshell can do this because it has firewire.

    Cynthia - the internet is pretty much full speed, even through Airport. The AGP graphics help a lot with scrolling, which is pretty much smooth. Apps take a little longer to load, but iTunes, Safari, and Word are all 100% functional with no significant lag. iPhoto is slow but not impossible to use. iChat and Adium work perfectly.

    Definitely worth installing Tiger on your iBook!

35. Paul Says:
    January 13th, 2006 at 07:17 CET

    Hey there, came across the blog you guys seem very knowledgable about Macs, could I ask - I recently bought a new ibook 12″ G4, is it possible to use the ibook install disk to install Tiger onto my old iMac G3 DV Special Edition running OS 10.2.8, I tried but it spit out the install disk on restart.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated
    Thanks

36. Kidd Says:
    January 23rd, 2006 at 01:33 CET

    Hey Guys Whats up? Im Hoping some one can give me some help here…..because i really really love macintosh but my lumbard is driving me crazy. I have a PowerBook G3 series bronze keyboard. 40gig/ 333hz/ 256mb ram/ usb/ cd-r/ external dvd-rw (only it does recognize it as a writer) any thats not my prob yet.

    I got it with Os X 10.2……………..(awwwwsume)
    Then i got a copy of X 10.3 tried to install (big mistake was a erase and install installation)
    My misfortune was that Disc 1 had and error in the burning, hence i lost everything.

    I had a friend that had OS 9
    Got it. installed it, it was okay……..upgraded it to 9.2……….continued my work as a producer and stuff.

    Now i got my hands on the Mac OS X 10.3 again and i installed
    (HERE IS MY BIG PROBLEM) When it was done it restarted……i see the apple logo……..then a circle with a line through it (no, error, etc).

    I backed up my stuff erased the drive completely installed again.
    Still the same thing.

    Please someone reply and help me. I’d really appreciate a mac guru’s help. because im told that X10.3 can run on the lumbard so please help me. email Biz_kydd@yahoo.com

37. Anton Says:
    February 19th, 2006 at 17:18 CET

    I think I’ve tackeled the challenge of getting Tiger up and running on a clamshell in a relatively easy way.
    I already had an iMac with Tiger available.
    I stumbled across SuperDuper (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html). Free for basic use and as easy as you can wish for!
    Backed up the iMac installation (10.4.5) to an external USB harddisk with SuperDuper, no problem.
    Connected the external disk to the 300 Mhz G3, 288 Mb.
    Booted with the option key down, got the option to boot from the external disk.
    Did that. Ran SuperSuper again, restored the whole drive to the iBook internal drive. Disconnected the external USB drive, rebooted the iBook……….and it now runs Tiger 10.4.5!
    Easy as……whatever.

38. Anton Says:
    February 19th, 2006 at 17:20 CET

    Corrected my mail entry.
    Good luck anyone who wants to try my solution.

39. Nate Says:
    February 23rd, 2006 at 07:42 CET

    As for the DVD Player:
    Apple’s DVD player does hardware decoding and therefore won’t work with the iBook, which doesn’t have hardware support for DVDs. VLC’s software decoding is your only solution. Upgrading or overclocking your iBook to a faster speed (or replacing your motherboard with one that supports hardware DVD decoding) around 400mhz should allow you play DVDs smoothly. (Don’t take my word for it though.)

40. Laurie Says:
    February 24th, 2006 at 04:13 CET

    Help! I have a Powerbook G3 bronze 400mhz. I am trying to update it from 9.2.2 to 10.2. Everytime I try to install it, the computer freezes up at the begining of the installation process. Any thoughts??

41. Dave Says:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 17:30 CET

    Can anyone help out there. I have a G3 clamshell (the dark blue one with a firewire port… not sure of the “name”) and have been struggling to get OSX on it. I can install any version of OSX onto it, but only if I use an external USB keyboeard and mouse, when they are unplugged it doesnt recognise the keyboard or track pad at all! Its driving me mad. Do I have to revert to OS9 and have the aqua interface? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Ta

42. Casey Says:
    March 4th, 2006 at 07:54 CET

    I was wondering if anyone can help me, my dad gave me his ibook g4 os x and it hasen’t been used in awhile and forgot the password. I don’t have the disks either, lost in a move. Is there any way around this? I can go have my local place reboot but they want $50 or $150 for the new cds and I don’t have the money right now. Any help would be greatly apprieciated. Thanks a bunch

43. pierre Says:
    March 15th, 2006 at 14:48 CET

    Casey, boot while pressing command + s to get in single user mode. Then you have an unix shell, type “passwd yourfatherlogin” and press enter and you should be able to type a new password. To reboot, type “reboot” and press enter.

44. JonSharp.net » Blog Archive » Linked from Wikipedia Says:
    March 24th, 2006 at 17:44 CET

    [...] The Wikipedia article that links to me is one about the Apple iBook. The article describes the method I came up with for installing Tiger on my unsupported PowerBook G3 (Lombard). It summarizes the steps involved in a clearer manner than my article does. It also links to another blog article which references my article while applying it to Tiger installation on a clamshell iBook. [...]

45. Glenn Says:
    March 30th, 2006 at 19:21 CEST

    I installed Tiger on my clamshell ibook with xpostfacto and everything went just fine .

46. andy simko Says:
    April 1st, 2006 at 20:26 CEST

    I’m a pc person, looking for an answer or two of my own. i do own a small computer consulting/data recovery company. i guess you don’t have a pcm-cia slot? a firewire card would only set you back about $25.00

    what about one of those hubs that allow both usb and firewire devices to plug in?

47. Kuen-Wah Cheung Says:
    April 7th, 2006 at 15:27 CEST

    I bought a clamshell indigo ibook. even with firewire, i had tremendous problems trying to get tiger onto the machine. But succeeded in the end!
    - I tried firewire target mode from two different computers with dvd drives but they kept on returning errors at the last stage. i heard ibooks have a possible firmware update to improve firewire target mode but that this update may disable ability to have third party RAM in the machine so i did not try to do the update.
    - I tried making turning my iPod into a bootable Tiger installation disc but it would not start up from the (USB) iPod Nano
    - I tried to make one of the partitions on my Firewire Hard Drive into a bootable Tiger installation disc but when i double clicked the Install icon afterwards an error message said i should install from the original disc. pah!

    In the end i bought tiger on cds from http://www.applerescue.com and it’s installed without problems…..

48. reinaldo_hernandez Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 17:34 CEST

    I had no problem installing Tiger on my graphite calmshell ibook.

49. Clamshell iBook Tunen - Seite 3 - Apfeltalk Says:
    July 12th, 2006 at 21:43 CEST

    [...] permalink Eigentlich braucht Tiger von den Systemvoraussetzungen zwingend einen Firewire-Port (den dein 300MHZ Modell nicht hat) Du kannst das System aber mit der Shareware Xpostfacto austricksen. Kostet 25 Dollar, ist aber am wenigsten stressig. Oder schau dir folgende englische Diskussion an wo andere L

50. lxmorj Says:
    September 3rd, 2006 at 17:18 CEST

    Okay, I have read the entire guide, as well as a few others, and am at a loss as to what to do.

    Specs:
    g3 clamshell 366mhz
    40gb hard drive (just upgraded)
    320mb ram (built in 64 and a 256)
    NO firewire/serial ports
    CD-ROM drive.

    Here is where it gets complicated:
    I tried to install Tiger using an external (boot w/option), but it will not boot to USB. It cannot boot in target disk mode, due to the lack of FW. I have used three different torrent versions of the CD rips of Tiger, burning each using disk utility. On the last try, I confirmed it DOES boot my powerbook, so there is no error in the disk. Also, I removed the badMachine entries (properly, I left the call there). I am not sure what else to do, as I do not have a 2.5″ enclosure to install it that way. Any ideas would be great, thanks..

51. lxmorj Says:
    September 11th, 2006 at 06:17 CEST

    nvm, working now

52. Clamshell iBook questions - LCD, CD, logic board - MacNN Forums Says:
    September 11th, 2006 at 23:17 CEST

    [...] Hi there, Here is how the upgrade is going so far. This morning I won the combo drive I was on about on ebay and in a week I will have it! Also I found out a way of getting OS X 10.4 Tiger onto my iBook with no xpostfactor! As I did try xpostfactor once and it nearly ruined my iBook! So here is the link if anyone wants to do it themselfs! HardMac’s Blog

53. William Says:
    October 14th, 2006 at 07:00 CEST

    I have a clamshell iBook G3 366Mhz running Panther quite quickly.
    It may not be suitable for Photoshop or 3D games. But it’s not that slow really.
    I have always loves the clamshell, and now I have one running an operating system from 2004 (on a laptop from 1999)! Not bad aye?

54. Margaret Says:
    November 7th, 2006 at 06:46 CET

    I have a possible problem. I purchased a 128/10 366mhz indigo clamshell on ebay that has 10.4. Ok, so was this the stupidest thing to do? Do I need to upgrade the ram? I have seen 2 good step-by-step sites,(the french one noted above and http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G3-Clamshell/) so I could try it….but….

    I am only needing the parental controls for safari and such, as the ibook is for my child.

    Any advice?
    Thank you in advance!

55. www.WilliamLower.tk Says:
    November 15th, 2006 at 08:25 CET

    Hi, I have a clamshell iBook (366Mhz), and would like to install Tiger. I have the DVD, and an iMac G5 networked with the iBook via ethernet.
    Does anyone know how I could install Tiger this way (or know some liinks to tutorial websites).

    Appreciate any help.

    http://www.WilliamLower.tk

56. XpostFacto, Clamshell iBook, and OSX - MacNN Forums Says:
    April 3rd, 2007 at 18:07 CEST

    [...] Very odd. Well, if that doesn’t work, there’s a somewhat more involved installation method too. OS 9 isn’t that special: if you have an OS 9 CD, you can boot off it, and there is a program called Apple Drive Setup in Utilities that you can use to partition with. Given that your drive’s pretty small, it may not help too much, but having a minimal OS 9 install on separate partition for emergency booting may be useful. [...]

57. Dave Says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 18:27 CEST

    I recently acquired a tangerine iBook G3/300…and perused these instructions to get Tiger installed. So far no luck, but I haven’t given up yet. My biggest curiosity is the USB bootability of these machines - how have several users been able to accomplish that? I was under the impression that PPC Macs can’t boot OS X from USB (nothing shows up in the “option key” boot menu for me, other than the internal drive).

58. Dave Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 18:39 CEST

    Update from the above post…got it installed. I used my iMac G5 to install Tiger on an external USB hard drive. I then booted the iBook from a Panther install CD, plugged in the USB hard drive into the iBook, and used Disk Utility to “restore” the Tiger install onto the iBook internal hard drive. Rebooted, and voila…Tiger on the iBook!

    Granted it’s a slug with anything more than one app open at a time with my 192MB of RAM…but it actually runs better than I thought it would, and I’m sure that will only improve once I drop in a 512 MB upgrade.

59. Iven Says:
    June 5th, 2007 at 18:13 CEST

    I installed Tiger on my 366mHz graphite clamshell. I’m in the process of blogging about it now. Basicly I just edited the list of “bad machines” in the disk image burned in on to CD’s threw that in the clamshell held down the “J” key (cus my keyboard has been rearranged to Dvorak layout) and watched as Apples System Requirements melted away in front of my eyes. I have a screen capture of my “About this Mac” pop-up on my blog check it out storyofnomass.blogspot.com

60. Johnklar Says:
    June 24th, 2007 at 01:49 CEST

    I have made my clamshell run osx 10.4.10 by clean installing it with a patched cd form the website mac serial junky!
    I own tiger myself , so i think its legal to get the cd this way….

    I have to admit that its running very nice ,
    (blueberry, no FW, 300mhz, 40gb ata 5400rpm hdd, 544 mb ram,)

    it´s slow …………..
    but everything works, even mutitasking, you just have to be patient.
    I think its much better than running it with classic!

    I yust need it to write at school so its more than good.

    Iasked myself,……
    Could the Microsofties ever make an Os that runns so smoothly with all the features
    (yeah also dashboard)

    startup time, around 2 minutes

    impressing for a 7 y ol´ comp.
    thanks apple
    and thanks for the Idea to install with the cd version of tiger from this blog!

    xpostfacto sucks!

    PS: My system profiler shows that im running a powerbook 2,1
    and my cpu model is power pc 750 (83.0)

    for everyone who wants this too:
    get the patched cd 1 of tiger at msj or somwhere,
    update yor firmware from the apple website,
    get 512 mb ram (ebay) and clean install tiger,
    when it stars up , it cant update automatic to 10.4.10 but you can mannually download and install the combo update for PPC from the apple website!
    Thats it

    but I needet 7-10 h to complete this process.

61. Johnklar Says:
    June 24th, 2007 at 13:13 CEST

    Ne startup time of my clamshell is:
    30 sec. til login 40sec. til u can use finder
    48 sec. til u can use the doc and start up the first apps!
    impressive for a camshel 300mhz 512mb ram running osx 10.4.10

    I just optimized it with TCC and Tech tool pro.
    nice thing!

62. Stephen Says:
    July 16th, 2007 at 08:05 CEST

    i am trying to install Tiger onto my clamshell iBook SE (no DVD).

    after created and copied the disk image (thru firewire) of OSX Install DVD and mount to the hard disk, i run the ‘osinstall.mpkg’. but installation halts and prompts “BaseSystem cannot be installed on this computer. This software cannot be installed on this computer.” have also tried to activate the Install Mac OSX but it only leads to reboot and go no further.

    i’m pretty sure that the script has been edited to bypass the installation check and badmachines check.

    appreciate if anyone can offer further help.

63. bob Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 22:21 CEST

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64. bob Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 22:22 CEST

    power pc 750 (83.0)

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