install tiger from another machines bundled dvd?

[jimmyjames]

hi i am new to mac. I bought a mac mini 1.5 g4 from someone that had the mac mini osx.4 discs. when i try to install it says i cannot install on that machine. Is there a way around this? I don't want to shell out for a new tiger disk with leopard around the corner. The machine does have tiger on it already but i feel wierd haing all this wierd stuff in the machine since its mine now.

thanks

 

[nixgeek]

Those discs are meant to be installed only on the Macs that they shipped with. You need to purchase a full retail version which will install on any Mac.

http://www.applerescue.com

Leopard won't be out until spring, so you might as well see about purchasing Tiger. The only Macs that will experience real benefits from Leopard are the G5s and the Intel Macs.

EDIT: This person sold you the machine but neglected to give you the discs that shipped with them, is that right?

 

[fryke]

If it's installed already, I'd simply create a new administrative user and use that. You'll start with a clean slate like that. Then hope that you don't have to reinstall the OS until you buy Leopard.

But yes, you can't and aren't allowed to install from a different computer's original installation disk.