Tiger on a Lombard

[quinterro]

I finally managed to get Panther on my Lombard after upgrading the memory to 320MB and hard drive to 40GB.

Now I want to put Tiger on it. While there are instructions to modify the OSInstall.dist file to prevent it from checking for this laptop, these were meant for full CDs/DVDs of Tiger. What I have is a step-up DVD which requires Panther to be installed first.

I've remove the entries from the OSInstall.dist file and wrote the contents of the DVD to an external 4.3GB SCSI drive. When I try to install it a message appears that MacOS X 10.4 cannot be installed on this machine.

Any suggestions?

 

[alk]

I don't think there are any "upgrade" DVDs of OS X to go from 10.3 to 10.4. Every installer for 10.4 should install the full version and not require 10.3 to "upgrade". I'd try XPostFacto as the Lombard isn't supported by 10.4 anyway.

Peace,

Drew

 

[The Macster]

Every installer for 10.4 should install the full version and not require 10.3 to "upgrade". I'd try XPostFacto as the Lombard isn't supported by 10.4 anyway.

It's probably a "drop-in" DVD, the discs that they put in the box with Macs shipped before Tiger was released but sold afterwards, like the Leopard drop-in DVDs that require Tiger to be installed. Yes, XPF is the conventional way of doing this, it could be that the Leopard-like hack doesn't work fully as you need some of the XPF kexts etc.