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I'm not saying that's normal, but only that you should give the netboot extra time to see if it ever does boot. How long did you wait for the netboot? I would give up after about 30 minutes if nothing else happens.

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With that in mind - Can you be a little more specific about the amount of memory installed?Īnother thought - Are you connecting through the same ethernet switch that does work with your newer Macs, and have you tried a different patch cable? Why did you mention booting to OS 9 (which you already said you don't need?) Did you think that booting to OS 9 is relevant to booting to OS X? There's no relation between the two, and (as I said) OS X needs substantially more RAM to boot. I also know about booting to OS 9 from a USB flash drive, but that's not possible with OS X on a PPC Mac. There might be 'enough ram' for booting to OS 9, but not nearly 'enough' for OS X. The reason I asked about memory is: when we get rid of old Macs, we remove the hard drive, and usually the memory, too, unless the memory is not usable in a newer Mac that we might still be using. You won't boot to a 10.4 image if you don't have enough memory in a Mac. Not enough to boot any OS X, AFAIK, and the newer, firewire ones that you have would still have 64MB, even with no memory, and COULD boot to 10.3, I suppose. If the chip was pulled out, then some of those only have 32MB on the board. Maybe the same situation for RAM in the old iBook. How much RAM is installed in those iMacs? I wouldn't recommend less than 256MB.

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Installing Debian on MacBook2,1 Heres how to install Debian (jessie) on 32-bit UEFI based MacBooks (MacBook1,1 and Macbook2,1) from 2006-2007 (only tested on MacBook2,1 but MacBook1,1 should work as well). When the school pulled out the hard drives, did they also remove some of the RAM chips? Guides on how to install Debian/Linux on a Apple computer. I used to show off an old iMac in a shop where I worked, with only 96MB, running 10.3.9 I think that you can boot to 10.3 with 64MB - and I am sure that you can boot with only 92MB. I do know that 10.3 really needs 128MB as a minimum. It performs those tasks without complaints.Įnough of that, you weren't asking about 10.4. It doesn't get used continually, and is only used for a few simple web sites, and as a visitor sign-in kiosk. I havent tried this particular version, but I had better success with the Windows version in. Read 2 user reviews and compare with similar apps on MacUpdate.

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I have a BondiBlue (the first iMac) running 10.4.11 with 160 MB RAM. Download the latest version of UNetbootin for Mac for free. The iMacs that I support may fail to netboot for a variety of reasons:įaulty memory, or not enough memory installed (probably the most common here).Įven the oldest iMacs will boot to 10.4, if the system is available (already installed on the hard drive, or - in your case - on a netboot.) The Macs have to have enough RAM.

I don't support netboot on 10.3 anymore, so I'm not too sure about that. I did say it was a guess, and if you know about these particular iMacs, then I can't dispute that.

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