Can I install Panther on a mini mac?

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barkstar65

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I have a mini mac with tiger installed i have erased the drive and wish to install panther on it(this is for testing purposes), but the only panther install disk i have is for a G5, when i boot up from the install disk i receive a message saying the bundled software cannot be installed on this machine. Are the install discs architecture dependant???? if so does anyone know of a workaround??
 
You would need a standard Panther installation disk for this to work and not one from another system. Even then the firmware may prevent Panther from being inkstalled at all if it shipped with Tiger.
 
erh... if the mac mini came with tiger, it will _not_ let an older system be installed - retail version or not.
 
It was not stated that the 'Mac Mini' was purchased with 'Tiger', MacOS X 10.4.x' installed; but 'came' with it; thus ...

... if the 'Mac Mini' is of of the original PowerPC series - it supports MacOS X 10.3.7 and later. The 'Mac Mini (Late 2005)' [2nd generation 'Mac Mini's] series came with MacOS X 10.4.2 [but, may be 'Panther', MacOS X 10.3.x, capable - see (1) below]. The Intel based Mac Mini's [3rd generation 'Mac Mini's] require MacOS X 10.4.5 and later.

With respect to attempting to install 'Panther' from a PowerMac / iMac G5 installation disc - nice try, no prize.

'Are the install discs architecture dependant????' - exactly, yes.
'if so does anyone know of a workaround??' - purchase a 'retail' (full install) copy of 'Panther'.

Borrow the 'retail' installation discs to perform (1) below, if you successfully install and boot from 'Panther', then purchase a 'retail' copy for possible re-installations (the 'new' MacOS way of solving software / OS related problems).

(1) - To see if the 'Mac Mini (Late 2005)' series can boot with 'Panther', MacOS X 10.3.x' - install 'Panther' onto an external FireWire hard disk drive, hdd, and attempt to boot from the external FireWire hdd.
 
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