Leopard 10.5.6 on a PowerMac 2.0 G5

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Leopard 10.5.6 on a PowerMac 2.0 G5

G5 runs 10.4.11 fine. I am trying to upgrade to leopard. When booted from the leopard disk, family pack,Ilife trio I get a hard freeze after it gets to the destination window.I have pulled all ram not orginal, pci cards added on, unplugged all things except mac to monitor cables. Run disk utility,reset the pram, pulled a hard drive in the second bay, and still I get a mouse quits moving can't do anything
freeze! I can boot from the 10.4 cd with no problems. Apple hardware test shows no problems. I have had mac computers since OS 7 and I don't know what to do next?
PowerMac 2.0 dual G5
Running 10.4.11
Trying to run Leopard 10.5.6
Original hard drive,memory,and dvd drive. Please Help?

PowerMac Dual 2.0 2004, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 23, 2009 12:44 PM

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Feb 23, 2009 1:04 PM in response to MacMan2x2

MacMan2x2 wrote:
When booted from the leopard disk

The Leopard DVD may have a problem...
Does it always freeze at the same point?

Mihalis.

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Feb 23, 2009 1:10 PM in response to Mihalis Tsoukalos

Only one time it let me get to installing it on drive bay # 2 second drive. Installation froze half way thru. This is the second black box os 10 disk i have tried. I also have an Imac G5, installed leapord
no problems. Freezes somwhere between after picking language and searching for available disks
to install on.

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varjak paw

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Feb 23, 2009 1:15 PM in response to MacMan2x2

If your 10.4 set are CDs, then it could be that your G5's optical drive could be having problem reading DVDs; it's quite possible for a drive to have problems with one and not the other. Do you have any other DVDs that you could use to test?

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MacMan2x2 Author

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Feb 23, 2009 1:19 PM in response to varjak paw

I have 10.4 10.3 10.2 and the orginal G5 disks that came with the computer.
The dvd drive seems to read other forms of dvd media,( video dvds) and music cds fine.

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MacMan2x2 Author

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Feb 24, 2009 5:01 AM in response to MacMan2x2

Does anyone have any other sudgestions or is the dvd drive the problem?

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Feb 26, 2009 4:09 AM in response to MacMan2x2

I put the Power Mac g5 in target mode. Hooked it up to my Imac g5 running leopard. Leopard disk is in the Imac. Rebooted from the leopard disk. Started installing leopard on the powermac. The powermacs fans kicked on high. I let the install complete and then disconnected the imac, and booted the powermac to the hard drive with the new copy of leopard. The powermac has Tiger on the orginal drive in the upper bay, ( runs fine). I put a velocity raptor 300 gb drive reformated hfs + journeled in the lower bay. Leopard is on the VR. I still get freezes running leopard soon after booting into leopard. Thank You for any help.

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