[Macpartners] 12" Powerbook issue

[Albert Willis]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Thomas Polce wrote:

> Hello all. I'll try to make this as short as possible.
>
> I have a 12" Powerbook that shipped with Tiger. I need the  
> flexability to boot
> into Panther 10.3.7 . I created the necessary partitions and tried  
> to install a
> full version of Panther. The computer gives me the circle with a  
> slash through
> it. I have done some digging and found out that any powerbook that  
> shipped with
> Tiger will not allow one to install any version of Panther that is  
> below 10.3.3.
> Unfortunately, one can only purchase Panther at 10.3 .

It would be helpful to know why you need to boot into Tiger. Also,  
some current machines can't be downgraded to Panther under any  
circumstances.

   -- Al


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Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
awillis at mit.edu


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