Can't install OS X into Intel MacBook :(
 

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So I've gone about a year without a decent Mac since I sold my last two and yesterday a very good friend gave me an Intel MacBook. One would think, "Hey Beaner! That's awesome! You must have the greatest friends in the world if they're just breaking off stolen legally acquired laptops to you at no cost! Why the :(?"

Well... It turns out that my friend wiped the hard drive before handing it to me and since he never had the restore disks for this computer, he just couldn't reinstall anything. I figured this would be fine because I have an original copy of Mac OS X 10.4 that came with a Powerbook G4 I purchased on eBay almost over 2 years ago. This laptop had Mac OS X 10.4.8 before it was wiped but it won't boot off my original Mac OS 10.4 DVD to go to the installer. I borrowed some restore disks that came with another friend's MacBook but this set contained Mac OS X 10.5 and the computer gives me an error message that says, "Mac OS X cannot be installed into this computer". After talking to Apple, they told me that the restore disks for each of these Macs are very hardware specific and I would have to find them if I wanted to install all my original system software.

My guess, however, is that there's no way to install an older system than what it had (10.4.8) into the computer and thus I need to get a standalone copy of Mac OS 10.4.8 or newer; something which I would rather not have to pay for... AGAIN. I was told by Apple that maybe the installer doesn't read the hard drive and they're sure it's a hardware problem, at which point they told me to pack up that computer, slap an address with '1 Infinite Loop' written on it and tried to ram their Apple-shaped commercial dick up my ass. BUT I REFUSED!!! I know that this is not the case since I was able to use the Leopard restore disk that I borrowed from my friend, use the disk utility in there to partition the drive into 2 partitions (Mac OS Journaled and FAT) and install Windows XP SP2 onto the FAT partition, which I am using right now. I don't even have drivers for all of it but it serves its purpose until all these retarded Boot Camp drivers are finished downloading.

Does anyone have any idea what else I could do? Does anyone have this particular model of MacBook (Macbook 2,1; 2.0 ghz Intel Core2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD) and is willing to sell/lend their restore lists? Perhaps I can pay with sexual favors. Or maybe you'd be willing to rip and upload the images to some webspace for me? Really, anything would help.

Thanks in advance.

Your brother in :cmb:
Paco-chan :dover:

Additional Spam:
Meh. Scratch that. I just used my friend's MacBook (the one that those Leopard disks came with), booted this Mac into Target Disk Mode and installed the system from his computer to this hard drive. Fucking runs clean, actually. I think I'm gonna do installations on Macs like this from this point on.

THANKS FOR NOTHING, DICKS! <3