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Installing Leopard on a Powerbook G4

I had a Powerbook G4 with 867 MHz PowerPC donated to my classroom with 10.3.9 on it. I upgraded the RAM, put in a 1 GB of RAM. I have the copy of Leopard that I bought and read that it should load on to this Powerbook. Yet I can't seem to get it to load; when I select DVD the white apple comes up, and then nothing. Will the Powerbook really run Leopard?

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.x), 867 MHz PowerPC G4 processor

Posted on Nov 25, 2008 2:50 PM

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Dec 2, 2008 8:14 AM in response to gryphiniii

gryphiniii wrote:
I have figured out that I am cheating. I bought a one use Leopard disk, nor anticipating that I would get another computer to run it. So I have been using the retail version that I used to upgrade my macbook pro, and I should have bought another disk, or back when I bought this one, I should have gotten the 5 pack version.


Actually, the "5 pack version" is the Family Pack. The license agreement it includes is as follows:

" The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that household. By “household” we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home, or condominium, including student members who are primary residents of that household but reside at a separate on-campus location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users."

Thus, you still would be "cheating" if you installed it on a classroom Mac ... unless your primary residence was that classroom!

Does the computer mark the DVD preventing it from being used illegally?


No. It is a DVD-ROM, meaning it cannot be written to.

Installing Leopard on a Powerbook G4

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