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Mac Mini and Tiger...

Feb 12, 2008 7:22AM PST

Hello all

I recently bought a Mac Mini, with LEOPARD operating system. Very, very nice. But I would like to try and run Tiger on this too, if possible.

Upon inspection of the Apple System Profiler, it is a Mac Mini version 2,1. Whatever that means. Anyway. Will it run Tiger (I was thinking it probably requires 10.4.10 or .11) or will it not work?

Also, does Apple Tiger come in universal format or do you have to get Intel or PPC depending on your platform

Thanks all for help.

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Depends on the definition of "too"
Feb 12, 2008 8:23AM PST

If it means, as well as, then the answer is "not going to work"

If you mean that you would like to run Tiger instead, then it will work.

Now, having said that, with the aid of a trusty external HD, you can load Tiger up on it and boot from there.

The other, untested by me, possibility is that you use something like Parallels and create a Virtual Machine and load Tiger on that.
Then you would have both OS's running at the same time.

Any good?

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Hmm.
Feb 12, 2008 9:19AM PST

Parallels nearly trashed my Mac but VMware works fine.

Question: Why wouldn't they both work together?

/Partition?

I have also read that you can't get retail Intel Tiger Discs. You only get the ones that come with the machine - and my Mac came with Leo only.

I would ultimately like to keep Leo too...

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Retail Tiger disks
Feb 12, 2008 8:57PM PST

are easily obtained, but probably not from Apple. You could try them though.

Even if they were both installed on a drive that was partitioned, Tiger on one and Leopard on another, the two systems could not function at the same time.
At boot up, a decision has to be made as to which partition you are going to boot from.

You could probably substitute VMware for // and do the same thing.

How did // nearly trash your machine?


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Kernel Panic.
Feb 12, 2008 10:06PM PST

It made a kernel Panic.