G5's installation DVD can't be installed on other Macs ("This software cannot be...")
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ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Yep -- and Apple has some new anti-piracy measures in Tiger that automatically "phone home" to Apple's layers' offices whenever it detects a system disk that shipped with a certain kind of computer being used in a different computer. It doesn't do it by network, either, so disconnecting your computer from the internet won't work. They have special homing pigeon eggs in the computer whose life energy is activated when you do this, then they grow and secretly exit the computer when you're not looking.
Then your head blows up -- I've seen it happen to this dude one time. I was all like, "No, dude, don't do that -- the license agreement says 'one installation,' not 'two installations,' dude!" And he was all like, "Dude, it's cool, man... this stuff's overpriced anyway, and I can't afford two copies. I don't understand why it's illegal anyway." and he went and did it despite my warnings.
Ruined my shirt that day -- I still can't get the stains out.
Suggestion: go purchase Tiger like you're supposed to.
Then your head blows up -- I've seen it happen to this dude one time. I was all like, "No, dude, don't do that -- the license agreement says 'one installation,' not 'two installations,' dude!" And he was all like, "Dude, it's cool, man... this stuff's overpriced anyway, and I can't afford two copies. I don't understand why it's illegal anyway." and he went and did it despite my warnings.
Ruined my shirt that day -- I still can't get the stains out.
Suggestion: go purchase Tiger like you're supposed to.
Lt Major Burns
"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
to use a term not used much on this highly respectable arena of wisdom...
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HateEternal
Mac Metal Head
Apple has been doing that for a long time, you are going to have to buy it. If you are a student, its only 70 bucks.
You are all correct, piracy is a bad thing. But binding OSX install disks to a machine is violating my rights. 
Here's my 10.3 story. I have an ibook and an imac both delivered with 10.3. I decided last summer to install 10.3 fresh on the imac. Pulled out the imac disks and discovered they did not work. So I pull out the ibook disks and naturally got the message saying the install could not be completed.
From then on it was a painful experience getting Apple to swap my imac OSX disks.
Here's my 10.3 story. I have an ibook and an imac both delivered with 10.3. I decided last summer to install 10.3 fresh on the imac. Pulled out the imac disks and discovered they did not work. So I pull out the ibook disks and naturally got the message saying the install could not be completed.
From then on it was a painful experience getting Apple to swap my imac OSX disks.
Thread closed. The answer is _quite_ obvious - as has been mentioned by above posts. The installation DVDs that come with Macs check whether they're being installed on the right kind of machine. I'm also editing the thread's title now, since there's no REASON TO SHOUT.
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