[G4] G4 won't read OS X upgrade CDs

[Harry Freeman]

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Is your Tiger DVD a machine specific DVD or is it the universal install.
Or perhaps its' an up-grade DVD.
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On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:12 AM, David Minger NPG Cable wrote:

> To clarify: The G4 533 will accept the install Tiger DVD meaning you 
> can put it in and it knows there is a DVD there. But when you try to 
> actually upgrade the system closes out the DVD and will not perform 
> the install.
>
> The same install DVD worked fine on a G4 450.
>
> The same G4 533 reads all other DVDs just fine.
>
> It would seem odd that a faster machine (the 533) could not perform 
> the same OS install that a slower machine (the 450) did just fine 
> with. Both machines are running with over a gig of RAM and plenty of 
> free disk space.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Skygram wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> Can you be a bit clearer as to what you mean when you say they can't
>> "handle" the upgrade discs?
>>
>> What upgrade discs are you referring to?
>>
>> When you say upgrade discs do you mean the newer OS discs, such as 
>> the Tiger
>> discs upgrading from the Panther discs?
>>
>> Bill
>> _______________________________________________

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