[G4] Tiger disc invisible on G4

[Michael Hall]

Chris,

Rumor has it that with the debut of Tiger an OEM disc will only work in 
the same type of computer that the disc came with. ie. eMac, Mac mini 
or G5. Some folks on eBay have been selling universal install discs.

Mike

On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Chris Loehr wrote:

>
> "Bought a set of Apple disks to install Tiger and they wont even show 
> up om
> my desktop. OK, the disks say iMac G5, but I tried them in my friends 
> G4
> powerbook and they at least show up. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
>
> I suspect the drive in this computer -- its a little sketchy about
> recognizing CDs sometimes and I have to read them into iTunes on my 
> external
> scsi burner. Is there a way to test the drive? Its original, I 
> believe: "
>
>
>
>
> That old of a machine may only have a cd drive and not be capable of 
> reading
> DVD disks, which I believe the Imac G5 disks are.
>
> Chris
>
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