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mukiduk - Aug 25, 2008 - 2:31 pm

I want to do a clean install of Tiger because the program I have has gotten corrupted somehow. My computer is quite old and the cd drive in the machine would not read the disk. It is second hand and was running OS10 when I bought it. However the cd drive is also very old and would not read the disk I bought. I swapped the CD Drive with a new DVD writer that I had in a PC machine running windows XP.

It now reads the Tiger CD properly but when I put the CD in the drive and restart the machine to install the program, it opens a terminal window (I am not familiar with Mac terminology) that says "unable to find driver for this platform (Power Mac 3,1). Proceeding backup via exception chain--Kernel Version 8.0.0B1" I am not sure what all this means but then it hangs

Please can someone tell me how I can successfully re-install Tiger??

gsahli - Aug 25, 2008 - 2:56 pm

I am not sure I can help, but ...
Is the 10.4 DVD a retail version (black with silver X) or is it a gray DVD that came for a specific model Mac?

mukiduk - Aug 28, 2008 - 2:23 pm

I got the CD from a technition so I am not sure what type it is. I am pretty sure that I should be able to use it to install the OS.

What does all this mean:---- (unable to find driver for this platform (Power Mac 3,1). Proceeding backup via exception chain--Kernel Version 8.0.0B1" I am not sure what all this means but then it hangs)

gsahli - Aug 28, 2008 - 4:33 pm

I think that means you don't have the right install DVD. That's why I asked about what type DVD. What does it say on the DVD?

mukiduk - Aug 29, 2008 - 2:33 pm

You are probably correct. I will have to get back to the technitian
at a later date