[macvoiceover] Re: mac downgrade to Tiger and different machine
- From: CJ Daniel <cj_daniel@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:12:52 -0700
Hi,
Can you shed some light on the Apple fish bowl or eMachine for Apple? I'm
interested & totaly clueless in the area.
Thanks,
CJ
On Aug 20, 2011, at 5:04 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Last week, I got a certified macintosh repair person to look at my mac
> mini and try to upgrade memory for Lion. The upgrade failed for a few
> reasons. First the Mac Mini was a 2006 model those will not upgrade
> beyond snow leopard. I thought since I bought it in 2007 that it was a
> 2007 model. Second, after the new memory was installed and an attempt was
> made to start the machine the power light would not come on. When
> original memory replaced new memory the power light still would not come
> on with an attempt at system startup. The motherboard on the mac mini
> probably got smoked. Before any of this happened though I got me an Apple
> fish bowl computer an emac or emachine computer from Smartco to serve as a
> backup for my mac mini in the event anything happened to the mac mini.
> Good move! I do have one problem with the emachine though, I don't know
> how to get the CD drive or dvd drive to open. It's behind a door and if
> there's enough space on that hard drive I will be installing tiger's xcode
> packages on it. The first operating system I got with that mini was Tiger
> so I have the disks I just have to figure out which disk is my Tiger disk
> and I can do that with volname command on a separate Linux system. I got
> an epson printer with no ports on it probably blue tooth and will have to
> find out if the emachine can talk to it later too. I'll have to use the
> Windows version of iTunes to backup my iPhone and iPods now unless a
> bluetooth connection can also work with those devices. I have a blue
> tooth antenna for a usb port but don't know if that will be necessary.
>
> Jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet
> of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's
> got God on his side."
> ~ Bill Hicks
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