The slow road to Windows XP

CNet ^ | 2005-0615 | Ina Fried

[MarkL]

Hell, I DARE any MAC user to try installing a copy of Panther on a G5 that shipped with Tiger... Or even try booting from the CD!

Go ahead, try down-revving the OS!

Why do you think there would be a problem? It works fine. I booted a OSX.4.1 Mac with an OSX.2 disk just yesterday to do a check that could not be run on the boot disk. The CD booted it and ran perfectly fine.

Because one of our clients ordered a number of G5s, and while the system specs called for Panther, they shipped with Tiger. It seems that when Apple stopped shipping Panther, they didled with the new G5 systems BIOS so that it's not possible to load Panther on the systems. You can NOT back-rev the OS, as indicated here, on the Apple support site.

The reason that I know this is that there's either been a design change in Samba between Panther or Tiger, or a bug ,as well as issues with Appletalk. Either way, my client's got 20 G5's that can't access a legacy NT server, which hold critical data for the company. They're still waiting for an answer from Apple on this one.

Mark

[softwarecreator]

Well MS started before Java even made it to 1.2, thats barely out of alpha..

Yeah, but 'starting' wouldn't kill it off ... it was just too much hype and too little delivery.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

He called Microsoft, gave them the forty five or so digit number required and got a new activation number and completed the installation. It's not supposed to work that way either.

Wow...no kidding. I'm surprised they didn't simply tell him to read his EULA carefully and have a nice day.

[Swordmaker]

You can NOT back-rev the OS, as indicated here, on the Apple support site.

Now that is surprising. Thanks for the information.