Installing 10.2 on 10.4 machine

[Shawn Erickson]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Karl Kuehn wrote:

> On Sep 3, 2007, at 11:35 AM, ahoesch wrote:
>
>> we have an old PowerMac thet ran MacOSX 10.2 for years. We  
>> recently installed 10.4 but need to downgrade this machine again  
>> for special reasons. I inserted the install DVD and pressed c  
>> while the computer was restarted, but the machine refuses to boot  
>> from the 10.2 install dvd. What do I have to do to get this to work?
>
> 	 I am sorry to tell you, but you can't really. 10.2 does not know  
> how to drive the newer hardware. If you need 10.2, then you are  
> going to have to find a computer that came with that OS to run it.

Sounds like they have older hardware that was running 10.2. With that  
said they will need to find a 10.2 disc that came out after their  
system came out (or find the disc that came with the system if it was  
10.2).

-Shawn