[grassle]

Will there be a PPC build of NBM? It would make things much easier for those of us using an older mac as 'that other machine'.

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[minihack]

Hi,
Because NBM and NBI are ways of running an OS on OSX86 hardware and are especially for Intel Atom, they will never be adapted to allow installs onto PPC hardware. However, if what you want to do is migrate an install from a PPC Mac to a new Dell based on Intel hardware then that is possible by doing a regular NBM/NBI install on to your netbook, then cloning your hard disk from your PPC based mac onto an external USB drive, then connect that USB drive to your Dell and finally running "Migration Assistant" to transfer all your old files, folders and app.s to the new machine.
As long as you have "Rosetta" installed on the new Dell install you will probably get about 80% compatability for your old stuff - don't expect old PPC versions of Photoshop to work well for instance.
You will get better compatability if you install Leopard rather than Snow Leopard to your Dell (so don't use versions older than 0.8.3 of NBM).
If actually you mean that NBM cannot be used on a PPC machine to prepare a USB stick based DVD installer, then I am afraid this post of mine is no help at all......Obviously the latest version won't work (as you need Snow Leopard on the source machine) and it won't run on Tiger machines, but I would have thought 0.8.3 might have worked using later versions of 10.5.??

[grassle]

Thanks, that was a thorough answer

What I'd like to do is to do the preparation of the USB install on a PPC/leopard machine, hence I didn't ask for NBI, only for NBM.

I had a bizarre Finder issue after upgrading NBI 0.8.3 to 0.8.4 RC1 and tried downgrading (back to 0.8.3), but after that booting was no more possible.

Now I want a clean 0.8.4 install (+ migrate from the time machine backup), and a PPC NBM 0.8.4 would eliminate any errors resulting from residues of a temporarily used NBM 0.8.3.

[meklort]

I believe I compiled NBI for 10.6 only, and NBBM for 10.5.x+ (I'll double check).

I'd conceder compiling NBI for 10.5 as well, however there are limited cases where you'd need it.

Either way, I'll double check that NBBM is compiled for 10.5+ and that it works on PPC (most likely Leopard, although I'd like to add Tiger support to NBBM as well).

[grassle]

Thank you!
You guys are so great you are about to come out on the other side of greatness.

[osxq]

Hi,

I have an eMac G4 and was following these instructions Dell Mini 10v Installation via USB and Mac | Guides | OS X | mechdrew when I reached the part to setup the USB stick with NBBM, the version I downloaded 0.8.4RC1 didnt work in my G4 at all (version not supported) and when I tried running the same version in my mini 9 w/ 10.5.7 it crashed.

so I then downloaded NBBM 0.8.3 which ran in my G4 and used it to prep the USB stick (10.6).

Question is: Will NBBM 0.8.3 work to install 10.6 or should I redo the restore of 10.6 to the USB stick (in other words, did i screwed up this process) and must redo it, and then find someone else with a SL machine?

[osxq]

an update to this thread. I was able to prepare my USB stick with a manual process by jamesbarnhill check this post: Fresh Install of 10.6.3 from Retail DVD? read #8 - That worked for me and now I have 10.6.4 installed.

I guess now that I am running 10.6.x I should recreate my USB stick with NBBM 0.8.4 RC1.