[Ti] Updating to Tiger

[John Griffin]

Probably not in the usual way. You will probably get a message that  
you can’t use those disks to install on an unsupported machine. You  
could try and port it across by making the TiBook a Firewire Target  
disk and using a backup utility like SuperDuper to write the new  
system. The nice thing about SuperDuper is that it will replace only  
those files on the TiBook that are updated on the iBook (like Tiger)  
and make a bootable Tiger Volume.

The only problem might be that there a few system files absent in the  
Tiger install on your iBook that are needed to make the TiBook  
bootable, so be careful! The worst that can happen is that you will  
have to go out and buy a master set of Tiger install disks (but we  
all want to support Apple, right?)

But by the same token, if you make the a Target Disk of the iBook,  
you could attempt to start up the TiBook with the internal drive of  
the iBook and see what happens. If you can do so successfully, you  
can probably just copy the system across using your backup utility.

jg

On 24-Jul-05, at 10:57 AM, Jeffrey Gonzales wrote:

> I have an old TiBook 550 running on Jaguar. Recently i bought an ibook
> with Tiger already pre-installed.
> Can I use the Ibook Tiger install disks to upgrade my TiBook?