AppleOnHP Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 I have a Leopard disc for a mac mini that I want to install on my powerbook g4 1.67ghz. After i select the language, the installer tells me that it can not be installed on "this computer". I know that the installer has some sort of check to verify that it's being installed on a mac mini. I figured that it would be in the Distribution file, in the form of a method. I ripped the disc to a read/write image, and used pacifist to extract the Distribution file. Inside, the are a few hardware checks, but none of them are relevant. In fact, it seems as if the Distribution file is not specific to the mac mini at all. I looked online a bit and found this page here: http://blog.samsite.ca/2007/02/hacking-an-osx-restore-disc/ Seems to me that there is a plist file that is preventing the install. The only problem is, there is no OSInstallCache.plist, as promised by the above linked instructions. What shall I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Tracks Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 You have to toggle those invisible files in order to see the /system folder on that disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguelcobain Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 I couldn't unlock the DVD either. There is also these link: http://share-it.gatech.edu/campus/departme...-os-x-installer Couldn't get it to work, though. If someone wants something useful to do, i would be nice to create an intermediate bootable cd that could turn any snow leopard/leopard DVD bootable on any mac. That would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Simpler solution by me http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...c=69634&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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