Q: Can't restore an early G5 single 1.8
I have a 1st gen single 1.8 Powermac G5.
I am trying to restore using the original restore disc but the computer will not boot from the disc.
The disc contains 10.3 sox, the computer has been upgraded to 10.5.8 leopard.
The drive works fine on other disks, just won't do anything withe restore disk. I also tried reinstalling from the Leopard upgrade disk but it won't mount the disk.
I just want to wipe the hard drive and reinstall.
Help please! :-)
Thanks
Len
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Posted on Sep 9, 2013 7:15 AM
OK, problem solved.
Due to some changes Apple made along the way, the only way to restore an older G5 is to install from an external FireWire drive. I couldn't use my external drive because I had no way to copy the restore disk to that drive since the G5 would not recognize the restore disk.
So I have an older G4 iBook that I put into Target Disk mode, inserted the restore disk, it recognized it right away. I accessed the iBook with the G5 since it was in Target mode, double clicked on the cd drive, disk started up on the G5 monitor. Just had to select the drive to install to and I was good to go.
Thanks for all your help!
Len
Posted on Sep 10, 2013 4:26 AM