[G4] Installing Mac OS X 10.4

[B G]

you can replace the CD drive with a DVD drive for around $30.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827129007

Then you will need a full install retail version(not machine specific)  
of 10.4 around $50

It sounds like the one you tried was an upgrade not a full install

BG



On Dec 3, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Greg Nembhard wrote:

> Well, i'll start off by saying thanks guys for your responses... as  
> most of you said... It didn't work.. so I went over to my brothers  
> house who has a 2002 QS 1Ghz.  So far so good a new problem cropped  
> up... His disks are DVD and I only have a CD-rom.  We tried to  
> install by making CD copies of the DVD (5 cd's by the way) and I  
> went to install disk 1 and it said I need OS X 10.3....  I'm only  
> running 10.2.8.  I called my local Mac authorized dealer and he said  
> he would install it if I buy leopard (which my machine can't run  
> because it is a 800Mhz) and he would copy a disk for me.  Still  
> trying to figure out what to do.  I got such a good deal on this  
> computer that I couldn't pass it up.. $179.00 now I'm thinking I  
> should have shelled out a few more bucks and got a machine with DVD/ 
> r and at least running at 1gMHZ.
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