I honestly do not know about the final release copy of Tiger. I have since migrated to Gentoo Linux PPC on my Lombard, but I received my copy of Tiger today, so I will at least attempt to boot the DVD and report on my success/failure here on the blog.

Gary,

I did not try to watch any video DVDs on my Lombard using the Tiger preview. I know that in the past, Jaguar and Panther would not view DVDs on the Lombard. The issue is driver support for the MPEG2 decoder built into the Lombard. Apple simply never provided support for it, as far as I know. So, based on that, I would not expect DVD playback in Tiger, even if it turns out to be installable on the Lombard.

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Jon

I want to try to load Tiger on my lombard as well. It is not my main machine by any means, but I want it to be part of the network running Tiger. Do you think it will load the final release copy of Tiger? \

I have not found anyone that has done it yet with the final release copy.

Yes, the retail release of Tiger officially says that it requires a computer with built-in FireWire. The WWDC preview of Tiger, however, ran just fine of my Lombard. In fact, it ran quite well, for being a pre-release.

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Jon