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Q: instal mac Os in external hd

The internal HD from my iMacG5 is gone, and i have changed it a couple of times, and it still breaks.

Now I am trying to instal the Mac OS in ans external HD and use it from there.

I have a brand new G-Drive with firewire connection, and the instalation disk says I cannot install the OS system from it.

What is wrong?

How does the drive has to be formatted?

 

Thanks

 

Andre

iMac, Mac OS X (10.1.x)

Posted on May 12, 2012 3:26 PM

by Niel,Solvedanswer
Niel Niel
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A:

For a PowerPC Mac, the drive needs to be a FireWire drive using the APM partition map, and the install DVD cannot be one designed for a different Mac model.

 

Allan, did you see the 'G5' and 'Mac OS X 10.1' above?

 

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Posted on May 12, 2012 3:33 PM

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