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Originally Posted by sodamnregistered2
My Panther CDs would not boot my mini. And my Tiger upgrade would only work on a drive that already had some form of OS X on it.
All I had was the OEM grey Mac Mini OS X install CD. Maybe I missed it, but I saw no way to invoke the Disk Utility. |
NO Mac OS X discs boot you to the desktop.
But you did miss it.
In Panther and earlier install discs, once the Installer comes up, you can go to the menu "Installer" and choose Open Disk Utility.
In Tiger install discs, once you've selected the language you want to use, there is a whole "Utilities" menu, and one of the items is Disk Utility.
tooki
P.S. If the Tiger upgrade disc is the same as the ones for Panther and Jaguar, there's a way to make a copy of the disc that doesn't require a previous version to be installed. On Jag and Panther upgrade discs, there was a hidden file called "CheckForOSX", and deleting it and then burning a new copy would make it stop checking! Note also that the upgrade discs always give you the option of doing an "erase and install", which gives you an identical result to using the full installer on a newly-erased disk.