[iBook] NEED HELP! Brand new ibook panther downgrade...

[Robert Sidney Cox III]

Thanks.  I tried that and it didn't work.  It looks like Panther doesn't 
have the video card drivers for the new 9550.

Larry Kollar wrote:

>
> Robert Sidney Cox III wrote:
>
>> I need some advice.  I was recently in a high-speed car accident,  
>> and though I survived unscathed, my much-loved ibook 12" 1GHz did  
>> not.  Luckily though, the nice Hitachi SK100 hard drive I had in it  
>> seems to be fine. So here is my question:  If I have a professional  
>> put this hard drive running OS X Panther into a new ibook 12"  
>> 1.33GHz, will it work?
>
>
> Try this: get a Firewire hard drive enclosure, put the hard drive in  
> it, then connect it to the new iBook. See if you can boot from the  
> Firewire drive (hold down the Option key at boot-up, I think). If it  
> works, just mirror the whole shebang over to the iBook's internal  
> drive and use the old one as a scratch or overflow drive.
>
> If you can't get the new iBook to run with Panther, there's always eBay.
>
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