[ale] OT iMac

[Christopher Fowler]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 13:43 -0400, S C C wrote:
> Would Firefox work on 10.1?

It should and I just downloaded the DMG from Firefox.  I get a CRC error
from the installer on the DMG file?

> 
> On 7/14/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote: 
>         I'm stuck now.  Not suer what my options are.
>         
>         Good News:  Unit came in today.
>         
>         Bad News: 10.1 Sucks.
>         
>         10.1 has Internet Explorer 5.3.  It seems Safaris is only
>         available for
>         10.3->10.4.  And I can't run any of the flash stuff that I
>         wanted to on
>         Disney's site.  Apparently Adobe wants to load the OS9 version
>         of Flash 
>         I guess there is no version for IE on 10.1.  At this point
>         I've got a
>         box my daughter can not use and I'm not sure what to do.
>         
>         
>         
>         On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:04 -0400, Billy Passauer wrote:
>         > Christopher Fowler wrote: 
>         > > Here is an idea.  I have many DVD drives and even on USB
>         DVD drive.
>         > > Could I temporarily attach that to the iMac and install
>         10.4 using that?
>         >
>         > You might check the compatibility database at
>         xlr8yourmac.com to see if
>         > any of your drives would be compatible for booting your
>         mac.  Oh, but
>         > this is an iMac, so it has the thin tray/slot loading type
>         of drive.
>         > You might be able to boot it up, with the system
>         disassembled, and
>         > connected to a "regular/full size" ide dvd drive via some
>         kind of
>         > adapter - but that could be ugly.  I'm pretty sure that you
>         cannot boot 
>         > from usb though.  The other thing you could probably do, if
>         you know
>         > someone that has a Mac, would be to get another hard drive,
>         stick it in
>         > their Mac (after removing their hd) and install Tiger to
>         it.  Then move 
>         > the drive back to your computer.  I think the install is
>         generic enough
>         > that the differing hardware wouldn't matter (unless theirs
>         was one of
>         > the new Intel based macs).  As much effort as it is going to
>         take, you 
>         > might as well just pay the extra $10 for the CD's.  :-)  I
>         was going to
>         > recommend getting a copy of OS X from
>         > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/osx-center/ as they have
>         pretty good
>         > prices, but it looks like all of their stuff is on DVD as
>         well (even the
>         > older versions).
>         >
>         >   ... Billy ...
>         
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