Comments on: Tiger on Clamshell iBook

By: bob

bob — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:22:27 +0000

power pc 750 (83.0)

By: bob

bob — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:21:58 +0000

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It wont work

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:05:31 +0000

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.

By: Johnklar

Johnklar — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:13:18 +0000

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!

By: Johnklar

Johnklar — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:49:03 +0000

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.

By: Iven

Iven — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:13:03 +0000

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

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:39:49 +0000

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.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:27:04 +0000

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).

By: XpostFacto, Clamshell iBook, and OSX - MacNN Forums

XpostFacto, Clamshell iBook, and OSX - MacNN Forums — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:07:33 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: www.WilliamLower.tk

www.WilliamLower.tk — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:25:05 +0000

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