Tiger 10.4.8 on both systems at once

TuckerdogAVL

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When I purchased my Tiger upgrade I told the Apple salesperson I would be putting it on my Desktop system.

I mentioned to him that my Laptop (an old G4 733mhz) doesn't have a Super DVD drive. He said, "that's okay....just hook up with firewire and download that way." I said, "so I don't need to purchase a separate operating system?" And he said, "why? Just do it through the firewire." My question is: Did he understand the question? I didn't purchase the "family pack" but would like to upgrade the laptop as well. Can I do this without some horrendous crash or the "Operating System" police coming down on me?

If it means I can never have both systems operating on line at the same time, so be it (Sometimes if I'm burning a dvd on the hardrive I'll surf at the same time on line on the laptop).

But, since I've now loaded this on the one system, I'm not paying ANOTHER $129 just to put on the laptop. Any thoughts? (Also, I do understand that my Laptop is the barest minimum requirements, and actually, 10.3.9 works just fine at the moment)
Thanks.
 
As I understand you need to buy a license for each system. If you bought a single license package of OS X, then by the rules you should only be installing it on one system. However, I don't know of anything that would prevent you from using the same media to install it on numerous systems.
 
See, that's what I thought, but the sales guy made me think that it was okay to put it on a laptop if you have it on a primary system, with the lap being a secondary one. Hopefully, we'll get a couple others weighing in.
 
There is no way apple can find out that you are running the same OSX on two different systems unless you register both of them. When the setup assistant asks you if you want to register then say no, and you are home free. There is nothing wrong with doing it that way.
 
Nothing prevents you from using the same installer on a different Mac. (except your own conscience) There is no code that can report that you have used the same installer on two Macs that are networked together. You're on your honor!
 
*cough* ... While there is no _technical_ restriction, it's highly questionable that a salesrep should say something like that. It's illegal to use one license for two separate computers. Period. Our board rules have something to say about software piracy. Further discussion of this is unnecessary.
 
Apparently, he misunderstood then. Perhaps he was thinking that I was merely trying to put the new operating system on my Laptop using another system since I didn't have a superdrive.

In regards to piracy, this is exactly why I asked the question - for example, there was a time in the not-so-recent future that one was allowed to put software on a harddrive AND a laptop as long as you weren't using both at once, etc. And his answer sounded like this was the case.

No matter. I'm not going to upgrade the Laptop since it's at its minimum system req. (at 733mhz). When I get a new laptop, it will have their newest system on it anyway, so that will be that.

In any event, on a separate level, I did just purchase the new iLIFE '06 as the family pack for both computers...no confusion there...as I asked first this time.
 
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