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The first machine I tried to install my shiny new copy of Tiger onto was my Powerbook G3 Lombard (Bronze Keyboard). That's when I found out that Apple decided to remove my laptop from the list of supported installs. Now I had only three options: # Stay with OSX 10.3.9, # Wait for [XPostFacto | http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/] to support Tiger, or # Find a workaround. I chose door number 3. I had just spent a large chunk of money on new memory and a larger hard drive only to find out that Apple's newest OS won't work. Some internet searching proved that the pre-releases of Tiger did work with the Lombard Powerbooks, so my belief was that Apple just changed the installer to exclude my favorite computer. I was correct. Here is how I was able to install OSX 10.4 on my Powerbook G3 Lombard. #Attach an external hard drive to the laptop (I have a PCMCIA firewire card so I used a firewire drive, but I imagine a USB drive would work, too.) #Use [Carbon Copy Cloner | http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html] to place a copy of the laptop hard drive onto the external drive. #Move the external drive to a Mac supported by the Tiger installer (I used my G4, if you don't have one, find a friend who does.) #Install Tiger onto the external drive. #Move the drive back to the laptop. #Use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the external drive onto the laptop internal drive I now have a working copy of Tiger running on my Powerbook G3 Lombard. I've only had it working for a couple of hours, but I haven't found anything that doesn't work like it should. Of course [Sogudi] works just fine with the new Safari. >> ''Kitzel Hoover'', 30-Apr-2005 ---- ;10-May-2005: I've still encountered no problems. However, one anonymous person has reported the built-in SCSI port doesn't work. I've never used that port on this laptop (and frankly, I'm not sure I could find any working SCSI devices around the house), so I can't confirm. %%% %%% __Update:__ From the developer of [XPostFacto | http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/] : ''Apple dropped the driver from Tiger, but the Panther driver works if you copy it over -- it's !AppleMesh.kext (in the /System/Library/Extensions folder). I'm working on an [XPostFacto | http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/] update for Tiger that will also take care of this, but you can just copy !AppleMesh.kext if you want a quick workaround.'' ;7-Jun_2005: Still going strong. It seems that [XPostFacto | http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/] is now available for Tiger, but I haven't tried it on my Lombard, yet. I think I will, if only to support that effort with some testing. At the very least, I'll watch the site carefully. ;7-Jun-2005: Still going strong. It seems that [XPostFacto | http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/] is now available for Tiger, but I haven't tried it on my Lombard, yet. I think I will, if only to support that effort with some testing. At the very least, I'll watch the site carefully. |
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