[muglo] Re: Apple ROM DVD drive?

  • From: Wayne Dobson <pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:04:13 -0400

It's here when you need it. Do you want to try to load Tiger first? I  
have the 4 CD version that might load.
On Jun 30, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Gordon B Nickerson wrote:

> Wayne, thanks - i can use that.  It's for a hackintosh project and  
> people have reported differing results depending on the drive. It  
> may be the external usb unit but it says compatible with mac os 8.6  
> - 9.2 and osx. I certainly don't want to take apart the mini or G5  
> to pull the drive! The target is the dell mini 9 which has basically  
> the same hardware as the first macbooks. Rather than wait for apple  
> i'm building a mac netbook.
> I've tried other drives that should work but osx crashes when i boot  
> it from the optical disc so was going to try an apple rom drive.  
> I've already partitioned the SSD as a mac file system.
>
> Right now i'm cloning the 10.5 retail dvd to a usb - when done i try  
> booting from that.
>
> cheers
> gord

Wayne Dobson
pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx
(519) 474-1253 res.
(519) 860-2725 cell



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