ibookg4 tiger dvd and mol (yes, the partition is fine..)
Andreas Liebschner <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:28:29 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.ppc.mol.general |
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Hi guys, I'm kinda new to the mac world, anyway I wiped out macosx on my ibookg4 to make room for linux, installed linux then mol. MOL seems to run just fine, however I can't get it to install tiger. Given that for some weird reason I can not boot the dvd directly and make a common installation (I think the DVD is somehow fubar'd, it only boots from MOL and won't boot from mac-mini or ibook), I start mol with -X --cdboot, the DVD boots just fine but when I'm given the "Mac OSX Installation" appears and when it's supposed to drive me trought the actual install procedure I'm given an error that in english sounds like "Warning. The software can't be installed in this computer". I read a lot of posts concerning tiger installation in MOL, so let me say that the partition is > 8GB, so that shouldn't be the problem. Reading the installation logs I see nothing weird, just some "installation check failure" (even if I pick up "show all" in that window, I don't get anything interesting or actually usefull). So, I have no idea on what's wrong.. I'm using the DVD that came with the Ibook G4, might this be the problem? I'm guessing it's a specific DVD that wouldn't install on machines other than ibooks? I say this because if I try a mac-mini dvd on the ibook (not in mol) I get the same error message. So if this is the problem, is there any way hack it and have "MOL" to look like a "Powerbook whatever" (I forgot what the computer model for an ibook g4 would be)? I mean, in system profiler it shows up as a mac computer, but the model is "MOL", hence the mismatch and the error message (at least I guess so) I know it would be easier to go to the apple store and beat them up for giving me a DVD that won't boot, and asking another one, but hey.. it does boot in MOL :) Thanks for any hint or help you may give me -- -Andreas Liebschner