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Re: What app formats a hard disk?

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In article <53223bf2$0$296$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Erik Richard
Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> wrote:

> >> The CD set has been used for both a MacBook, a MacMini 1,42ghz PPC &
> >> 18.3ghz Intel, a PowerBook G3 Pismo, a GigabitEthernet, a QuickSilver
> >> and of course also for more MDDs. - So it must be an UB version...
> >
> > You are misremembering. If you had a single disc that could boot all
> > those models, it must have been Server 10.4.7 or later, or any variant
> > of 10.5.x or later, and it must have been a DVD.
> >
> > The 10.4.6 retail DVD (and CD replacements) happened to be new enough to
> > support every PowerPC Mac model which could run Tiger, but they were
> > PowerPC only.
> >
> > I have confirmed this just now by checking mine - the kernel on both the
> > DVD and CD 1 for retail 10.4.6 is PowerPC only, so no way can they boot
> > an Intel Mac. They are also APM.
> >
> > The 10.4.x install/restore DVDs that shipped with Intel Macs were Intel
> > only. I haven't checked which partition scheme they use, but it could be
> > either APM or GUID.
> >
> > The only universal OS install DVDs which exist for 10.4.x were the
> > retail Mac OS X Server 10.4.7 or later (Server 10.4.8 Universal or later
> > was also bundled with the Intel Xserve from Late 2006).
> >
> > This is clearly indicated by the names of the software updates, e.g. for
> > 10.4.8 (other 10.4.x updates left as an exercise for the reader), this
> > is the full set of delta updates:
> >
> > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL312 (Intel)
> > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL313 (PPC)
> > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL316 (Server PPC)
> > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL318 (Server Universal)
> 
> I don't know, 

correct. you don't know.

> but I do know that my CD set is a 4 disc CD-set with OS X 
> 10.4.6 Universal Binary - else it would under no circumstances be able 
> to boot anything Intel Mac... - I also do know that at least one of my 
> 10.4.6 retail DVDs is an Universal Binary...

no such thing existed. the cd set is a retail version and therefore
powerpc. 

> I'm not sure whether it's a server edition or not. - There are no 
> indications on the labels that it /is/ a server edition.

then it's not.

> So that's a fact - no matter what you might say.

the only fact is you're full of shit.

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What app formats a hard disk? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-03-09 15:12 -0400
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-03-09 14:17 -0500
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-09 19:26 +0000
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-10 00:09 +0100
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-09 23:27 +0000
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2014-03-13 01:59 -0700
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 00:03 +1300
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-13 18:59 +0100
            Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 14:04 -0400
              Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-13 20:03 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 17:10 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-14 00:18 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 19:28 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-14 01:50 +0000
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 10:16 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-14 00:14 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 19:28 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 13:19 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-15 09:13 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-14 02:41 +0000
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-13 18:22 +0100
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 13:56 -0400
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 15:51 -0400
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-03-09 19:58 +0000
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 16:17 -0400
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-03-09 23:10 +0000
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-09 19:30 -0500
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-10 17:17 -0400
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-10 22:22 +0000
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-03-10 13:57 -0400

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