14.12.2003

Going Panther

Yesterday I was brave enough and finally installed Panther on my Powerbook. As I did't have many personal stuff on the powerbook, I did the "windows way": backup of some data/files and to a clean install including formatting the hd. Now, this went very smooth and was actually very fast. After I had put all four CDs into the powerbook - one after the other of course - I had installed everything and Panther was running. Nice. But then I had to install all the updates that are already available. And this required three turnes every turn ending with a reboot! (So, believe it or not, somethimes you even have to reboot a Mac!) Then I started to explore the applications, I wanted to test all the iLife applications (although they haven't changed of course for Panther, but you have to test anything after a OS upgrade, right?). So I started iPhoto, iTunes, iMovied and iDVD - iDVD? Where is it? It wasn't installed because it's not part of Panther! So what? Of course, iDVD was included with my Powerbook and so it should be somewhere on the install DVD accompaigning my Powerbook. But searching on the DVD didn't reveal it. So, I just my all time friend Mr. Google and found the solution: you have to start the "reinstall" application from the Jaguar DVD and this will install you all the applications that are missing in Panther (like iDVD or e.g. the classic mode if you need it.) And actually this worked well and now I have everything up and running again. I hope next time, Apple is shipping a short notice about how to reinstall iDVD for convenience! 12:46:30 PM