[WinMac] iMac & NT4/PPC

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:18:21 -0400

        That probably would be correct: The only bootable images on the CD are for
i386. You might need to find a single-processor R/S 6000, install NT4 & SP2
onto a hard drive, and then hook it into an iMac... Not for the
faint-of-heart! :)

        Thank you for trying anyway!

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 10:20 AM 9/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>We were unable to get the NT4 Workstation CD to boot on our iMac. :( Not
>to say that some other method couldn't be tried, but all we got was the ?
>icon swapping with the MacOS folder icon. Kind of like the iMac was
>asking - hey - where's the MacOS system folder, huh?
>________________________________________________
>Ethan C. Banks - Network Engineer
>Pensacola Christian College & Related Ministries
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
>> [mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu]On Behalf Of Dan Schwartz
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 8:17 AM
>> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
>> Subject: [WinMac] Re: Macs doing other things
>> The one question yet to be answered is if NT will run on the iMac, since
>> the iMac is Mac ROMless... Unfortunately, M$ stopped suporting the PowerPC
>> version of NT after NT4's Service Pack 2.

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