Switching from os x panther to os x tiger

I have a G4 12 inch Powerbook with Panther on it and i recently got tiger to install on my mac and it wont let me install it. Do i have to uninstall Panther and if so how do i go about doing that?

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
If you got Tiger from a friend or ebay, and it's on gray-faced disks, it may be for another mac system and won't install on your Powerbook. The gray-faced disks are system dependent. You want to use the black-faced disk, which is the retail version. One source for older Apple retail software is http://hardcoremac.stores.yahoo.net/

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I was wondering and I cannot seam to find any topics on it so. I want to know if it is possible to take my Desktop I built mainly for Windows and put Mac OS X Tiger on it?
Desktop Spc's:
Mother Board: Gigabyte Intel Socket 775
Processor: Intel P4 3.4 Mega-Hertz
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Ram: 1 Gig
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I just want to find out if it is possible. I was reading an artical and found out that the Mac OS X Tiger already has many of the things that the new windows vista has. So I thought that I would ask to see if it is possible. Thank you in advanced.

There are plenty of topics on this very question which gets asked fairly often depending on your search criteria.
Short answer is no.
The OS X license agreement provides for installing and using it on a single Apple branded/labeled computer only.
The only way to install Tiger on a PC is via a hack of some sort and even if the hack is successful, very little on your PC would be supported and the overall performance would not be worth the trouble.
> I was reading an artical and found out that the Mac OS X Tiger already has many of the things that the new windows vista has.
What you read is correct and it took Microsoft 5 years to come up with what amounts to a copy of OS X. I read there are 10 separate/different versions of Vista to choose from? How on earth is the average person (or even the above average person) expected to wade through all that confusing mess?
Apple is getting ready to launch a new OS X version called Leopard this spring which will place Windows even father behind.
If you want to run Tiger and Vista, purchase an Intel Mac which gives you the ability to run both operating systems natively on a single computer.

Is a switch from imovie to FCE HD with 10.3.9 OK? Or do I need Tiger?

OK, finally looking to switch from imovie to FCE, but have reviewed many posts regarding compatibility with Panther vs. Tiger, and I've been through the QT7 upgrade mistake with 10.3.9, and then went back to QT 6.5.2 (this is my first post, as most other imovie problems I have been able to resolve after checking the imovie posts - such as the QT7 issue and purchased iTunes songs not uploading unless burned to a CD first, etc., etc....).
The FCE 3.5 requirements recommend 10.4.6+ and QT 7.0.4+, but it looks like many FCE users are still with 10.3.9, but maybe they're not using FCE 3.5. Should I try and find an earlier version of FCE and stick with 10.3.9? Any other recommendations or upgrade suggestions based on my current configuration for a "smooth" (not "jaggy" or "jumpy") transition from imovie?

Ideally if you do serious, processor intensive work, such as video editing, music production or photo-manipulation, you should have a dedicated computer that nobody else touches - especially kids!
Machines are like animals and wives - they should have only one master!
I realise that last statement is not considered PC but as we are on a Mac forum, anything that is not PC should be OK.
Anyway, I'm the master in my own house, when my wife lets me.
Your machine may benefit from a little spring-cleaning. Open Disk-Utility and "Repair Permissions" on your boot HD and "Repair" all the others.
Also run the Cron scripts with a free utility like MacJanitor:-
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html
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Hello Wontsey & Welcome
On 6-4-06 I installed Norton Internet Security 3.0.1 for Mac. I thought maybe my problem was related to the firewall part so I unistalled it and turned the Apple firewall that came with the computer back on.
This did not help. In fact, when I try to open “Help” from the desktop menu the program opens and then immediately closes so I can’t access it.
I hate to have to tell you this Norton is the problem, looking into uninstalling it, the uninstallers that came with it are not effective so no matter you do not have the CD/DVD go to their site to get the Uninstaller
UseCocktail or OnyXto find the invisable files. Just follow Macjacks directive.
This is covered in this Topic thread,abandoning Norton Internet Security see the files Macjack speaks of in the topic thread. If you have questions post in the same forum a new topic this thread is archive, click on the link and then click"back to topic list". This is why i first came to Apple discussions, to get help with the mess Norton can make on Panther and found help as you will. It is not a Safari issue per say, rather a Norton problem.
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I am switching from a G3 Powerbook to a G4 iBook. I have need to recover ClarisWorks and MacDraw from the G3. I read as long as I use Panther or older I can run classic and the programs will work, is this correct? If so, is there anything I need to do other than copy the application folder(including location of it) from the old hard drive to the new hard drive?

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another useful thing to do would be to clean it out after taking the back out, please dont remove anything without refering to the users manual. (this can also be easily downloaded from the web). check that nothing is damaged or burned out, if it is, you may get a return on your gurrantee.
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Connect a blank powered external drive to the PC.
Right click on the Disk in the File manager and choose format: exFAT
(if it's a XP machine, first install exFAT from Microsoft and reboot)
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Do not format the drive NTFS or FAT, NTFS can't be written too by the Mac and FAT can't hold over 4GB sized files.
If you format exFAT on the Mac, it likely won't work correctly on the PC.
"Migration" type programs are a utter waste of time and effort between PC's and Mac's for the fact that only certain files (and no programs or anything else) will work between them, also it's a hassle and takes too long. So don't even bother with it.

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