10.4 on PowerPC G4

[baygbm]

Is it possible to install OS 10.4 on a PowerPC G4 Mac? I tried to do it the other day and got an error message telling me that it could not be installed on this Mac. :(

Do I have some kind of conflict or is this literally impossible?

[AISI]

I'm running 10.4 on my G4 like hundreds of thousands of people, I suppose. What kind of Mac do you have?

[gwoodpecker]

It's perfectly possible to install 10.4 on a G4. Just make sure you've got (i) a DVD drive for installing OS X, and (ii) the original retail OS X Tiger installation DVD. You can't take the installation disk from an iMac, for example, it must be the "normal" retail DVD, because all the other installation disks are made for a specific Mac model.

[Project2501]

It's perfectly possible to install 10.4 on a G4. Just make sure you've got (i) a DVD drive for installing OS X, and (ii) the original retail OS X Tiger installation DVD. You can't take the installation disk from an iMac, for example, it must be the "normal" retail DVD, because all the other installation disks are made for a specific Mac model.Also you naturally can't install version that is intended for Intel either.

[gwoodpecker]

Also you naturally can't install version that is intended for Intel either.

Correct, but as there is no Intel version of OS X Tiger (non-Server) sold at all (every new MacIntel system comes with their own special "Intel-DVD"), this problem is virtually inexistent :lol:

[Project2501]

Correct, but as there is no Intel version of OS X Tiger (non-Server) sold at all (every new MacIntel system comes with their own special "Intel-DVD"), this problem is virtually inexistent :lol:Yet there are many copies of them floating in the BitTorrent networks, and by the way not calling anyone pirate, just sayn'

[baygbm]

Yet there are many copies of them floating in the BitTorrent networks, and by the way not calling anyone pirate, just sayn'
Thanks for the feedback. As I suspected, I need original system disks to install 10.4.