Q. I have a purple imac G3 computer and I now know I can upgrade it to mac OS X, however all the mac OSX discs are all in DVD format. Is there any way I could get CD forms of this operating system or turn a DVD into a set of 4 CDs or will I need an external drive?
A. Leopard will not run on less than a G4 867mhz.
OSX up to Panther (10.3) was available on CD, you can probably find it via an online search.
There was a Media Exchange Program for Tiger, through which you could get CDs for an additional $10 after purchase of the installation DVDs. You're not likely to find those, as they came straight from Apple.
Technically, Tiger should work on your G3 iMac, 256k of RAM is necessary, you'll wish you had more though... You might be able to mount your G3 hard drive on another Mac via target mode and install from there.
An external DVD drive would be easiest, but make sure your G3 iMac will boot from it.
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What all Mac os x cat programs are there?
Q. I was browsing on their site earlier, and I saw one of their products was MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. When I looked at the product page, I saw they mentioned Mac OSX Tiger, and I was curious if anyone could give me a list of these things...?
A. These things from Apple with big cat names are called "operating system". In the Microsoft world, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 are examples of operating systems.
Apple makes a type of computer that is different electronically from the other brands. They use a different type of operating system called "Mac OS". Before 2001, these different operating systems evolved through versions that were named "OS 7.5" or "OS 8.6" or "OS 9.2". When Apple changed the operating system into a UNIX based system, they also changed the naming system a bit. Besides going forward with the numbers, they started using code names of big cats for OS X (Roman numeral ten) after the Public Beta. As was traditional at Apple, the code names were not public, just a little inside humor for Apple employees. For example, OS 7.5 had two code names. The project started as "Mozart", in keeping with the music themes. They changed it to "Capone" as a foil to the code name "Chicago" for Windows 95. Before the big cat names, they often used music terms as code names for the operating system, such as Rhapsody, Allegro, and Copeland.
Beginning with OS 10.2, Apple changed their policy and started using the code name in advertising. Here are the OS X names:
* Mac OS X Public Beta (shown in "About This Mac" as "10.0 beta" -- very buggy) released September 13 2000 and "sold" for $29.95 shipping and handling; not included with any new computers, as it was for testing purposes only.
* Mac OS X 10.0.4 released 21 June 2001; the first retail version of OS X. As it was so radically different from the "Clasic" style of Mac OS, Apple included both OS 9.2 and OS X with new computers for the next three months.
* Mac OS 10.1 (code named Puma) released 25 September 2001
* Mac OS 10.2 (code named Jaguar; the first Apple product advertised with its code name) released 23 August 2002
* Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) released 24 October 2003
* Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) released 29 April 2005
* Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) released 26 October 2007
* Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) released 28 August 2009
Incidentally, you don't have a wide range of operating systems you can choose from for an Apple computer. The hardware always uses the highest level technology, and the operating systems are updated frequently with little regard for older Macs, so you can't use any operating system that is older than your Mac, and eight year old Macs can't use the newest operating system. At the link below, you can locate a given Mac and see what minimum and maximum version of the operating system can be installed.
Is there a program that I can use to mirror all my files in OSX?
Q. I would like to have an exact copy of my files on an external drive so that I can access them with another computer.
A. You can use disk utility to do this!
NOTE: If you are having problems with this method of backing up using Disk Utility, there is an alternative that seems to be more consistent: Instead of opening Disk Utility from your Applications folder, you can boot your computer using the OSX Installation CD or DVD 1, then (after your computer is started up), click on the 'Installer' menu and select 'Disk Utility...' from there, then go through steps 3-7, restart, and do the rest of the steps outlined here. (Thanks, Niel!)
1. Once every month or every other month do a full backup to an external drive. Turn on and plug in the external drive.
2. Open Disk Utility (in Applications>Utilities)
3. Click on your computer's main hard drive (the one with Mac OSX installed on it) in the left-hand column in Disk Utility. (Click on the same name as the drive name on your desktop).
4. Click the 'Restore' tab (Mac OSX 10.3 Panther required).
5. Drag your main hard drive into the 'Source' white field.
6. Drag your external FireWire drive into the 'Destination' white field. (make sure any other data on your FireWire drive is not the same name as anything on your main OSX drive, and that you have deleted any previous full backup by dragging everything to the trash and emptying it.
7. Click 'Restore' and it will copy all data across to your FireWire drive.
8. When it is finished, Go to System Preferences and click on Startup Disk, and select the External FireWire drive, then restart and make sure the computer is able to boot from the external drive. If it can, then everything went well, and you can unplug the FireWire drive.
9. To restore (if you ever need to do so), do all these steps, except hold down the 'Option' key at startup and choose to boot off the external FireWire drive, and put the FireWire drive into the 'Source' field, and your main drive into the 'Destination' field.
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