On May 17, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Phil Ershler wrote:
Boot your G5 in FireWire Target Disk Mode, and use a Panther-compatible computer to install the OS onto the G5.
This approach is going to produce a train wreck! It's not that Apple made an arbitrary decision that new G5's will not run Panther. There is hardware specific code in 10.4 for the newer hardware. That code will be absent in Panther. I'd be surprised if a FireWire TDM Panther installation on a new G5 will even boot.
If you must test your software with a machine that will run older versions of the OS, you must keep an older machine around to run the tests on. That still doesn't mean that you can't do development and debugging on the new G5.
