[ale] OT iMac

[Christopher Fowler]

I'm stuck now.  Not suer what my options are.

Good News:  Unit came in today.

Bad News: 10.1 Sucks.

10.1 has Internet Explorer 5.3.  It seems Safaris is only available for 
10.3->10.4.  And I can't run any of the flash stuff that I wanted to on
Disney's site.  Apparently Adobe wants to load the OS9 version of Flash
I guess there is no version for IE on 10.1.  At this point I've got a
box my daughter can not use and I'm not sure what to do.



On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:04 -0400, Billy Passauer wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Here is an idea.  I have many DVD drives and even on USB DVD drive.
> > Could I temporarily attach that to the iMac and install 10.4 using that?
> 
> You might check the compatibility database at xlr8yourmac.com to see if 
> any of your drives would be compatible for booting your mac.  Oh, but 
> this is an iMac, so it has the thin tray/slot loading type of drive. 
> You might be able to boot it up, with the system disassembled, and 
> connected to a "regular/full size" ide dvd drive via some kind of 
> adapter - but that could be ugly.  I'm pretty sure that you cannot boot 
> from usb though.  The other thing you could probably do, if you know 
> someone that has a Mac, would be to get another hard drive, stick it in 
> their Mac (after removing their hd) and install Tiger to it.  Then move 
> the drive back to your computer.  I think the install is generic enough 
> that the differing hardware wouldn't matter (unless theirs was one of 
> the new Intel based macs).  As much effort as it is going to take, you 
> might as well just pay the extra $10 for the CD's.  :-)  I was going to
> recommend getting a copy of OS X from 
> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/osx-center/ as they have pretty good 
> prices, but it looks like all of their stuff is on DVD as well (even the 
> older versions).
> 
>   ... Billy ...