On 7/29/24 21:22, philo wrote:

Have to admit I am not familiar with this machine. (or any of the Intel
Macs)

I was given an iMac 8.1 running OSX 10.5.8

The owner had a 10.6 upgrade DVD but when I try to run it to upgrade, I
get a message "will not run on this version."

Actually, what I really need to do is just upgrade the browser.

Safari 5 connects to very few websites...I can't even connect to the
Apple store

Any idea where I can get a browser that is better than what I have>

new version of Firefox will not run

Also:

I wanted to empty SOME files from the trash bin NOT all of them

The ONLY option is to empty the bin>

I did Google and found two answers
Either hit the command or else the option key

That gives no option to delete only that file

Thanks

She said I could do anything I want so I tried Linux SUSE but CPU is
just too slow and the performance was poor

I looked through the box of software that she gave me and there was a
Snow leopard install CD.

Though it would not allow me to upgrade Leopard, I decided to erase the
entire drive and then perform a clean install>

I then used a 10.8 dmg to further upgrade and next installed Foxfire legacy

I'll be darned, it actually does a decent job so I think the machine
will be good enough . I seriously doubt if she's going to use it form
much more than looking at photos>

So far I installed GIMP and will probably look for some simpler software

Libre Ofice is next and her printer/scanner installed easily

It probably would not have worked with Linux anyway

and I did not like the idea of her having to dual boot with XP which is
now gone

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On 7/30/24 15:40, philo wrote:

On 7/29/24 21:22, philo wrote:

Have to admit I am not familiar with this machine. (or any of the
Intel Macs)

I was given an iMac 8.1 running OSX 10.5.8

The owner had a 10.6 upgrade DVD but when I try to run it to upgrade,
I get a message "will not run on this version."

<snip>

Ok . machine all setup and running quite well .

The only Windows app I wanted was Irfanview so I installed Wine>

It works great.

The only problem I had was I had to specify where I wanted it installed.
First time I tried, it sort of disappeared on me as I was not paying
attention to where it was going.

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On 2024-07-30 20:40:19 +0000, philo said:

On 7/29/24 21:22, philo wrote:

Have to admit I am not familiar with this machine. (or any of the Intel Macs)

I was given an iMac 8.1 running OSX 10.5.8

The owner had a 10.6 upgrade DVD but when I try to run it to upgrade, I
get a message "will not run on this version."

Actually, what I really need to do is just upgrade the browser.

Safari 5 connects to very few websites...I can't even connect to the
Apple store

Any idea where I can get a browser that is better than what I have>

new version of Firefox will not run



Also:

I wanted to empty SOME files from the trash bin NOT all of them

The ONLY option is to empty the bin>

I did Google and found two answers
Either hit the command or else the option key

That gives no option to delete only that file

Thanks

She said I could do anything I want so I tried Linux SUSE but CPU is
just too slow and the performance was poor

I looked through the box of software that she gave me and there was a
Snow leopard install CD.

Though it would not allow me to upgrade Leopard, I decided to erase the entire drive and then perform a clean install>

I then used a 10.8 dmg to further upgrade and next installed Foxfire legacy

I'll be darned, it actually does a decent job so I think the machine
will be good enough . I seriously doubt if she's going to use it form
much more than looking at photos>

So far I installed GIMP and will probably look for some simpler software

Libre Ofice is next and her printer/scanner installed easily

It probably would not have worked with Linux anyway

and I did not like the idea of her having to dual boot with XP which is
now gone

That iMac will officially run Mac OS X 10.11.6, which would be better,
being three version newer.

Unofficially you could probably install Mac OS X 10.12 (maybe 10.13)
using a patcher to fool the installer into thinking it's a newer model
- sometiems it works fine, sometimes it can be a bit flakey, just
depends on the software you try to run on it and what features they
expect but are missing.

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The newest install media I have is 10.8

It will be plenty good for the owner who is only going to use the
machine on a limited basis.

What I thought interesting was 10.6 was able to connect to the update
site but 10.8 cannot.

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