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Uh.....Ok, you have my attention.
Any links on how to do that? or is it moderately easy enough to figure out?
And what was your experience like once it was installed?
TIA
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would be to be able to burn the driver CD. You can't boot into windows on a PPC box for obvious reasons.
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I'll post the instructions later today if I get a chance.
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday February 07, @07:08AM (#116346)
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It would be great to have the instructions - presumably this is also good for partitioning hard drives?
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I only got it to install, not run.
And if you need to partition hard drives, use Disk Utility [file].
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday February 08, @08:40AM (#116366)
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Disk Utility is fine for partitioning disks, so long as you don't mind erasing their contents in the process. (Or did I miss a new feature in Disk Utility.)
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday February 07, @06:48AM (#116344)
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"I don't think Apple with be very happy about this.
I'm skeptical about that. I'm quite sure they'd rather not. But, unlike Microsoft, their profits are mostly in hardware; so I doubt such things are a *major* worry for them. No one even needs Mac software unless he's already got a Mac and there's only one maker to buy that from.
It's not as if you can take an OS X disc (even an Intel one), make minimal changes to it, and then run it on a PC. Now *that* would be a major worry.
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Why would you think Apple wouldn't care about people doing this? You get *A* copy of OS X when you own a Mac. We all have to pay $129 to get a newer version as they are released. Whether or not their profits are "mostly in hardware" - they do sell later versions to allow other users to upgrade without buying a new Mac, and I doubt they don't mind if you steal a copy instead.
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday February 08, @07:11AM (#116363)
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How many times do we have to tell you idiots this?
COPYING IS NOT STEALING!
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Thursday February 08, @11:52AM (#116372)
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Nope. That's why there are two separate laws and different penalties, for theft and for copyright infringement. Theft denies the owner of their property. Copyright infringement does not. It can be argued that it reduces the amount of money they can make, but that is hard to prove and may not be true.
In any case, both theft (stealing) and copyright infringement are illegal. They may both be wrong, depending on your beliefs about intellectual "property", but they aren't the same thing.
Cheers.
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Another question: Aside from the "because I can" value (which I entirely understand), what's the use of Boot Camp on PPC? I can partition with Disk Utility, and multi-boot simply by holding down opt and choosing which partition to boot from. What else would Boot Camp give me?
--
vi vi vi - The editor of the beast.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday February 07, @06:59AM (#116345)
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I did this with the freebie OS X 10.1 update disk that came out in fall 2001. I was able to turn the update into an entire OS X 10.1 install disk. When I later bought a new iBook G3 that came with Jaguar, and I wanted to update an older iMac (fruity colored) to Jaguar (10.2), I did this same thing with the 10.2 restore disks that came with that iBook.
So I guess what I am saying is that the hacks to do this have been available on the web for at least half a decade, ever since XP was still in diapers.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday February 07, @09:03AM (#116350)
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The original OS disks for your G4 would be out of date today, so why don't you just buy a new box of Tiger?
At €129,- it's not expensive, especially compared to Vista Ultimate. Besides you get the added bonus of being legal.
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday February 07, @06:03PM (#116354)
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It's too much money for a starving student, plus this G4 doesn't serve much of a purpose so I'm not going to spend a bunch of money just to put Tiger on it.. I'd rather spend that on Leopard for my MacBook when it hits the streets.
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You do know that Mac OS X with a student discount is $69, right?
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It's too much money for a starving student, plus this G4 doesn't serve much of a purpose . . .
If you don't think it serves much of a purpose feel free to send it to me. I don't need it personally, but I can find someone who does and would actually be grateful for it. Not sure why you frown upon a G4 like it's absolutely useless . . .
Perhaps you haven't starved enough in life to appreciate anything.
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday February 08, @09:27AM (#116368)
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"It's too much money for a starving student"...
Ok, if you're starving and have no other possible source of income and you steal some food, I can understand.
However, just because you don't want to spend money on Mac OS X doesn't make it right. If you're a student, start studying morality. Are you going to steal my stuff next just because it's not worth the cost to you?
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Thursday March 29, @07:46AM (#117266)
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