Assuming you mean acquiring by legal means and not pirating, then yes we all pay full price for upgrades unless you have purchaced a new system within X days of the release of the new OS. In these cases Apple typically offers a $29 upgrade to the owners of new machines.
Also, an upgrade CD is not bootable or a full installer.
When I got Panther for my G5 (all G5 owners got it for $29), it was a full install. It had every disk (including Xcode), and I was able to clean install off of it. (As well as boot)
When I got Panther for my G5 (all G5 owners got it for $29), it was a full install. It had every disk (including Xcode), and I was able to clean install off of it. (As well as boot)
Well, mine wasn't. When I tried to install OSX over an OS9 machine, it didn't work. I first had to use my Jaguar full CD, and then upgrade it with the Panther CD I bought as an upgrade for $29. Booting: no go either.
Maybe there are different upgrade cd's going around ?
Mine was not a full install either. I do a clean install everytime I upgrade, its just something I do. I had to go back to the orginal disk to get classic.
Weird. The educational copy of Panther I bought was a full installer. It didn't have a hardware test CD or anything, but I could certainly boot off it while doing the clean install.
It is possilbe to hack the upgrade cd to full install. You must use Disk Copy to copy the exact image to you disk. Go inside and find a fill that says installation check, version check and something else check, can't think of it off the top of my head. After those files are removed, you burn it back onto a disk, and bam, it's a full install of the OS>
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Originally posted by BigBlue
Also, an upgrade CD is not bootable or a full installer.
When I got Panther for my G5 (all G5 owners got it for $29), it was a full install. It had every disk (including Xcode), and I was able to clean install off of it. (As well as boot)
Originally posted by Placebo
When I got Panther for my G5 (all G5 owners got it for $29), it was a full install. It had every disk (including Xcode), and I was able to clean install off of it. (As well as boot)
Well, mine wasn't. When I tried to install OSX over an OS9 machine, it didn't work. I first had to use my Jaguar full CD, and then upgrade it with the Panther CD I bought as an upgrade for $29. Booting: no go either.
Maybe there are different upgrade cd's going around ?
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