A new OS on an old system

As long as it meets the system requirements of the OS, you should be fine as long as there are drivers available for the hardware.

I was wondering if it's possible to install a brand spankin' new operating system on noticeably old hardware. I'M NOT ASKING IF IT'S PRACTICAL!! I just want to know if it's possible. For example, let's say I have a 2004 Dell Dimension Desktop, basic design, unmodified. Would I be able to install something like, say, a Windows 8 or 9 on it? I know this may seem like a silly question but some amazing discoveries have been made by asking seemingly silly questions. Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I am running a Windows 8 64 bit system with the most current version of Flash installed, whatever that is, since I blindly accept whatever update Adobe sends to me. My problem is that I cannot delete the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file from an old system disk where I have deleted everything else in the Windows folder except the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file.
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Does anyone know how to delete this file without doing what Krischu did by loading a Ubuntu system?
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Well Pat, I definitely do filter what Microsoft tries to load on my system, for example, their insistence in trying to sneak in Bing. Either way, I keep my system up to date constantly.
Do you understand that the file I am dealing with is on a separate disk from my system disk? I don't see any way that the OS would automatically delete files that are not part of the current OS.
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Mapping new product code from source system to old product code in Oracle COA

Mapping new product code from source system to old product code in Oracle COA
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One of our legal entities is changing their product codes in their COA segment. We are not changing the code structure in the global SOB. Is there a workaround to pull the source system information into ADI (or any other tool) and map it to the current Oracle product code?
Thanks and regards,
[email protected]

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Sandboxing old system disk on new machine?

Hi,
my question is a fairly simple one, but somewhat convoluted, although I'll try my best to word it clearly:
I just bought an '09 MacPro and stuck in 3 extra 1TB HDD's. I partitioned the 4th drive in two sections of 500GB each. On one of these partitions I want to clone the system drive of my old '07 iMac, the other partition will be used for Bootcamp.
I will use the iMac's HDD clone as an alternative boot disk, occasionally.
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zephonic wrote:
I just bought an '09 MacPro...one of these partitions I want to clone the system drive of my old '07 iMac...I will use the iMac's HDD clone as an alternative boot disk, occasionally.
There are likely no hardware drivers on the iMac clone configuration that will allow you to boot the newer Mac with.
Clone as a archive to access files, but likely can't boot, almost positive of that fact.
The only chance in heck is if the OS X you installed on the old Mac has the hardware drivers for the newer Mac. Say a 10.6.3 Snow Leopard retail disk for instance. Grey disks or factory installed OSX on the old Mac configuration? Forget it.
I suspect that there are some iffy things on my iMac, since power-down used to be near-instantaneous but now takes almost 20 seconds. That happened just overnight, BTW. Not a gradual process as a result of accumulating bloat, I think.
You can hold c boot the iMac off the 10.6 installer disk and simply install OS X over the installed verison, then immediatly Software Update. This replaces OS X only, not your files or programs, might cure your issue.
Back up your user file folders (Music, pictures etc) to a external drive and disconnect before doing anything.
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You can also get a Firewire cable and adapters (Firewire 800 to 400) hook the two Mac's together and T boot the iMac's hard drive to the desktop of the newer Mac, run a ClamXav scan, grab choice files and so forth, no need for a clone which you likely can't boot anyway.
The one thing I want to avoid, is any sort of malware creeping into my new machine because I cloned my old system drive onto the new one. Is there any way in which I can "sandbox" the cloned boot disk and restrict that system from accessing/recognizing/affecting the other disks?
Well you likely can't clone as it won't boot anyway. So since your not running the OS on the clone on your new machine, code can't execute if it's on there.
Far as I know there are no "hopping" malware for OS X that runs simply by connecting a infected media. OS X warns you of any new programs it hasn't seen previously before allowing it to run.
If you T boot and jsut extract your choice files, run a ClamXav scan, your likely going to be just fine.
Just don't transfer the old programs from the old Mac and run them on your newer machine.
I basically want to run them as two entirely separate systems, even if they use the same CPU/RAM/GPU.
But differnet hardware and no hardware drivers, so I'm almost positive it won't work at all.
PS: what is that F8 thing again, where you use the other computer as a target drive?
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Good Luck.

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