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2006 – Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ships on DVD media, which is great if you have a Mac equipped with a DVD drive (as most of us do these days), since the entire set of installer files can be contained on one disc, eliminating the necessity of disc-swapping in the middle of the process.
Click the install or download button for macOS / OS X which will download the macOS / OS X Install installer package to your hard disk (it may take a while as it is 4.3GB+ in size). At the point where the macOS / OS X installer has downloaded it will automatically launch and ask you to continue. For sale is an original Apple iMac Mac OSX 10.4.4 install disc. This is 1 of a set, I do not have the other disc (which should be 'Mac OS X Install Disc 1, 2Z691-5736-A'). This disc is in excellent shape. I did luckily buy some CD’s from a user on reddit a few months ago, so I had 10.4 install DVD, and an install of 9.2.2 for the emac. Now the OS 9, is an install disc, not one of the recovery discs, and naturally the aluminum powerbooks don’t boot OS 9, so I’m kind of out of luck for getting Classic working, or so I had thought.
However, there are certain older Macs that are officially supported by a Tiger (i.e., that have built-in FireWire) but don’t have optical drives that support DVDs – notably some low-end iBooks and early low-end eMacs.
My Late 2002 iBook G3/700 has only a CD-ROM drive, and some of the education-only Macs were also CD-only.
Mac OS X Version 10.4 (PPC) requires a Macintosh with:
- PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
- Built-in FireWire
- At least 256 MB of physical RAM (512 MB recommended)
- A built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer
- At least 3 GB of available space on your hard drive; 4 GB of disk space if you install Xcode 2 developer tools
- DVD drive for installation (or get CD media from Apple for $9.95)
There are several possible workarounds. Apple will let you send in your Tiger install DVD along with $9.95 (details here), and they will replace it with a set of OS X 10.4 install CDs. If you don’t intend on upgrading your hardware in the near future and have no Mac with a DVD drive available, that may be the most convenient solution.
Another possibility is to purchase or borrow a freestanding, bootable FireWire DVD drive and run the installer from it.
A third possibility is to mount your DVD-challenged computer as an external hard drive from a DVD drive-equipped Mac via FireWire Target Disk Mode and choose its hard drive as the destination disk in the OS X 10.4 installer. That is the method I chose for installing Tiger on my iBook, using my Pismo PowerBook‘s DVD drive.
FireWire Target Disk Mode is a great innovation, even better than PowerBook SCSI disk mode was back in the SCSI era. It’s usually used for fast file transfers between computers and is the speediest interface for doing that, but it also works well for system or disk maintenance that requires mounting the drive from another boot volume and, as in this case, for system installations.
To put my iBook into Target Disk Mode, I shut it down, and connected it to the PowerBook using a standard 6-pin FireWire cable (the same on both ends) usually used for connecting my external FireWire hard drive. I then started the iBook while holding down the T key, and in a few seconds the yellow FireWire symbol began bouncing around on the screen.
When I woke up the PowerBook, icons representing the iBook’s three hard drive partitions were there on the Desktop.
I inserted the OS X 10.4 install disc in the PowerBook’s DVD drive and clicked the Install icon, which made the PowerBook reboot from the DVD. When the installer screen came up, the iBook’s partition volumes were among the alternatives presented as an install destination.
The installation itself was straightforward. I chose to do an Archive and Install, and I checked the option to have the new system assimilate user settings from a former system, avoiding the tedium of going through the Setup Assistant routine.
In my case, I also chose not to install the 1.62 GB of printer drivers, the extra fonts, and the language support files in order to conserve hard drive space on the iBook’s 20 GB hard drive.
My basic installation took about 20 minutes. After the installer displays its “Installation Of Software Successfully Completed ” dialog, it wants to reboot into the new system it has just installed. I discovered no way to defeat this, so the Pismo rebooted from the iBook’s hard drive, which was interesting. No problems were encountered, though.
At that point I shut down both computers, disconnected the FireWire cable, and restarted each computers from its respective boot system.
In that instance, the Previous System Folder containing my old OS X 10.3.9 Panther installation turned out to be more than 5 GB, while the new Tiger system folder was less than 1.5 GB. That Panther (10.3.x) install actually dated back to my installation of OS X 10.2.3 Jaguar in January 2003, when the iBook was new and after I had partitioned the hard drive. It had only been updated since then – many times – never with a clean system reinstall.
Doing a clean installation (save for the imported settings), recovered 4 MB of free hard drive space. Emptying the Trash containing the Previous System Folder took nearly half an hour and deleted some 90,000 files!
Using this method proved to be a successful workaround for getting Tiger into my iBook, and I expect it would work for installing Tiger on older, officially unsupported Macs using the XPostFacto installer hack, although I can’t say for sure, having never tried it.
Further Reading
- Using FireWire Target Disk Mode to Install OS X on Macs Without DVD Drives, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2006.09.14. Two methods for using FireWire Target Disk mode to install OS X on a Mac that can’t read DVDs.
Short link: http://goo.gl/qgf3yr
searchword: dvdchallenged
- 2Installation
- 2.3Step 3 : Tweaking
Overview
There are several 'distributions' of Mac OS X 10.4 Hacked for generic x86 computers,
This overview is based on Ver. 10.4.4 with a few patches from 10.4.5.
The reason I used this version, is that this is the version that supports the wireless network, and that's the most important issue for me, as most of the other issues can be resolved/fixed if you've got Internet Connection.
Worked right 'out of the box' Installation
- 1024x768 Resolution
- Hibernate and Standby
- UltraNav (3rd button scroll doesn't work yet)
- WLAN (Atheros, IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II Only, Intel 2200/2915/3945 Won't work!)
- Audio
- Audio Keys
- Bluetooth
- DVD-RW (burning discs)
Easily Fixed / Resolved
- 1400x1050 Resolution. (can be easily set to default to any screen supported resolution with very little editing, but requires restart to actually change res.)!
- ATI 3D Acceleration (Mobility Radeon X300, Core Image & Quartz Extreme a.k.a CI&QE - Enabled with a little tearing)
- Battery Management
- Broadcom Network 1GbE
Untested
- Modem
- IrDA
Not Working / No Fix
- Finger Print Module
- Embedded Security Module
Installation
This specific guide will not discuss installing multiple OS, So if you want some help about that, refer to the page I offered
!!! BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE YOU BEGIN !!!
!!! To be ULTIMATELY SAFE : Use a different Harddrive !!!
First thing is to 'Obtain' an Installation Media DVD with the proper patches. Sorry, I can't guide you through this process,as there is no 'free floating' ISO image download like the various Linux distos., but since you're here, it seems you know what you're doing (and as I gathered, the average Mac OS X users doesn't), here's what we need :
We will be needing an image patched with these patches : Intel_SSE2,Anti_TPM, CPU_ID.
It is also possible to run the OS in a virtual machine within another OS such as Linux or MS-Windows, but I shall not get into that here
hereforth I'll just assume you've got the right media, and made yourself a DVD copy, so let's get started :
Step 1 : Disk Partitioning
Mac OS X can natively access and modify Windows Network Shares and Unix Shares, but only read local shares.
If you want to share files between two or more OS on the same system, you'll need to setup a FAT32 partition for that matter. Again, this is not discussed here. as we are setting a single OS, so we will continue as planned.
Before we begin installation we have to setup the partition on the harddrive.
While we can do it from within the Mac OS X Installation LiveDVD, it doesn't work every time, as it produces B% Error (for not activating the Partition) so we'll use the method that works for sure.
This part assumes basic knowledge in Linux shell commands and fdisk
I've found out that having a Gentoo Minimal LiveCD is very handy, but any LiveCD will do.
Fire up the power, and insert the a linux LiveCD/DVD media you prepared into the drive.
when it's up, open up a terminal and sudo (if not on Gentoo LiveCD).
open up fdisk to create and setup the partition we want :
That's it, We're done.
What did we just do ? We opened fdisk for edit of (s)csi (d)isk (a), as the disk is recognized as a SATA disk due to SATA->PATA Bridge. if you're using an UltraBay disk drive, change accordingly.
We now created the (n)ew partition, as (p)rimary partition, the (1)st, and used the entire disk space (Enter twice), then we set the partition (a)ctive, and change its (t)ype to (AF), which is Macintosh Journaled HFS+ File System. Finally we (w)rite the changes to disk.
Now insert the Mac OS X DVD media you prepared into the drive, and boot from it.
You'll be greeted with the Darwin/x86 Boot loader prompt, and a countdown timer,
you can let it run out, and get the default startup (Apple) screen, without knowing what is going on behind the scene, or press the F8 key to enter boot time options(switches):
I'd recommand adding the following switches :
- -v Enables Verbose mode
- 'Graphics Mode'='XRESxYRESxBPP'
- XRES is X Resolution i.e. 800,1024,1280,1400,1600 etc.
- YRES is Y Resolution i.e. 600,768,1024,1050,1200 etc.
- BPP is the color depth (Bit Per Pixel) i.e. 8,16,24,32.
The OS X Installation Media is actually a LiveCD of Mac OS X, so after running all the hardware detection etc. you'll get to the initial Setup Language screen.
Choose the language you want, and click the arrow to continue.
You'll be presented with the Install Mac OS X Screen.
Step 2 : Installation
Before you press the Continue Button, Open up the Disk Utilities application from the menu above, and make sure that you see the destination drive, and Mac OS X partition we need.
Now that we verified it's OK, continue with the Installation Wizard until you get to the Customize Screen,
Click the Customize button and add whatever you need,
I usually remove all unneeded language translations, and unneeded printers settings, to save space, and add X system, and the needed patches : Intel_SSE2, Anti_TPM, and kext_removal (of IOPCCard...).
Then proceed with the process, (you could skip the Disc Image Verification to save time).
After Installation is done (about 20-40 minutes), you will be prompted to restart the computer. Do so, and remove the Install Disc from the drive while the computer is rebooting.
When the OS is loaded, you will see the second part of the Install Wizard.
Follow through the process, choosing your Country, Network Settings, Apple ID (if you have or want one), etc.
When you're done, you will finally be presented with the OS X desktop.
Step 3 : Tweaking
So, If you're here then everything went OK, and you are finally seeing the OS X desktop.
First, we'll want to properly
Set the Display Resolution
as in the boot options, we would want to make sure that the resolution we choose is working OK,so we'll try using that resolution with the boot option switch, prior to making it permanent.
restart the computer and at the Darwin/x86 boot prompt type :
as explained above.
if the display is correct, we'll set it permanent now, by opening the Terminal (the OS X shell), and sudo (using the password we created in the install process).
add the switch inside the <switch></switch> clause, so it would be <switch>Graphics Mode</switch>, and the clause below it to be <string>ResXxResYxBPP</string>.when finished, save the file and exit.
Adding 3D Graphics Acceleration
Mac Os X 10.4 11 Install Disk
Adding Battery Management Support
Mac Os X Tiger Install Disk Download
Adding Wired Network Support
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