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Feb 16, 2014 4:21 PM in response to FatMac>MacProby cruttis,The Pro came with a broken HD and rather than buy a display I was very intrigued by the confusing reports of using the late 2009 27" iMac as a display. I cloned my working Firewire 'test' 10.9.1 to a 1 TB Barracuda using a USB sled and fitted it to the Pro.
The Pro came with a nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT so I bought a Display-Port to Mini Display-Port cable to use the iMac display.
The Pro had boot problems traced to pin 20 of the purchased cable being connected, not to VESA standards. When I modified the cable to remove pin 20 all was well.
One gets attached to one's Mac, for me especially the iMac, and this was my solution to retain Rosetta although I am slowly transferring to Entourage for email even though it's also no longer supported. It was the best emailer capable of transferring my Eudora stuff.
When I find a suitable (used) comparable display, the iMac will be placed in storage after internal cleaning.
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Feb 16, 2014 7:26 PM in response to cruttisby FatMac>MacPro,cruttis wrote:
...When I find a suitable (used) comparable display, the iMac will be placed in storage after internal cleaning.Before you do that, you can clone the SL drive to another HD in the Mac Pro and apply the combo 10.6.8 update to it before you boot from it, or since Mavericks likely won't let you do that while booted in 10.9.1, create a bootable SL USB flash drive with 10.6.8 on it, boot from that and apply the combo updater. Either way should customize the HD for use with the Mac Pro. Or, if you have the retail SL installer, just reinstall SL and update. Its the easiest way to keep all your SL/related software working without reinstallation.