Restore Cds

[wyu]

Hi guys, I have the software restore cds from one of the newer imacs. (Mac os 10.1.2 and Mac os 9.2.2) Total of 4 CDs
I've tried using these cds on some of the older tray loading Imacs we have here, but when it boots into the apple system restore program, it says "This configuration is not supported on this computer"
I'm assuming that this has to do with the checksum of the .dmg file? Is there a way to modify the file so that these cds will work on any type of machine?

Thanks

[Dekatophil]

I'm not 100% sure but it's certainly not the checksum. I think the installer (or whatever programme launches first) reads in the specs of the older machines and refuses to work.
After all, the SW restore CDs may include Firmware updates etc. that aren't suitable for older iMacs

[wyu]

Thanks for the reply. In the past, when ASR cds were only one cd, I would come across a simlar problem when using a newer imac cd on an older imac. I would launch the ASR application and it would give the message "this configuration is not supported by you computer" I would then quit out of the ASR program and go into the configurations folder on the ASR imac cd. From there, I manually mount the Diskcopy image and copy the files over and then reboot. Seems to work fine for me. I've never had any problems.

Do you think that there is a way to edit the ASR application so that it would be "blind" to the specs of the machine? I was under the impression that the ASR application simply formatted the harddrive and copied the files over.

any input?

Thanks!