Weird iMac Leopard Install issue.

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Weird iMac Leopard Install issue.

Hello All,

Recently Was given an iMac G5 With a 1.8Ghz PowerPC Processor and 2Gb RAM.. It works great, However it has Tiger and I want to Upgrade it to Leopard..

Here's where the Issues start..

I put my DVD In the Drive.. I know the DVD Works, I've used it on Many other Computers without a hitch. it brings up the "Install OS X" Window and When I click it, It tells me to click another button to restart and Boot from the CD..

It then restarts, And I can hear the Superdrive Working away (The Superdrive works Fine BTW) It then shows the Grey "Apple" Screen and the little wheel starts spinning, Super drive still reading fine.. Then the super drive stops reading (You can hear this) The little Wheel goes away..

Then it sits for maybe 20 Seconds and.. The fans being to speed up.. Slowly at first then faster and faster until they are just flooring themselves.. I thought this was normal so I left it for awhile.. 1/2 Hour later and still nothing..

Help me guys, I'm stumped.. I don't usually use macs.. So I have no idea what I'm doing..

Thanks All

Cap10323

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Nov 14, 2013 12:43 PM

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Cap10323 Author

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Nov 14, 2013 1:53 PM in response to Cap10323

Thought I would Also ad, Nothing happens.. It just sits there flooring itself.. Cant find anything on the web.

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Klaus1

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Nov 14, 2013 2:51 PM in response to Cap10323

What DVD exactly is this? Where did you buy it?

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Cap10323 Author

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Nov 14, 2013 5:46 PM in response to Klaus1

It's A copy of a Leopard Disc I had, I had dropped and broken the original But I still have the .DMG (Or .ISO or Whatever) And so I Just make another one when the old one gets too scratched..

It's actually the only one I've ever seen.. It came from a rare Leopard single layer disc.

It's not Pirated, However I cant find another single disc one to try.. My machine won't read DVD+R DL's You see..

Could it be because I burned it on a PC? I am not quite sure how to burn discs on Mac.

Cap10323

The iMac Works fine BTW, I'm Posting this reply from it..

I have heard there are ways to remove extra printer drivers or something to make a normal one fit on a Single layer disc.. Does anyone know anything about that?

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Klaus1

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Nov 15, 2013 2:59 AM in response to Cap10323

Apple published Leopard on a dual-layer DVD, but it is no longer available from them. You will have to look on eBay or Amazon for a replacement black retail install disk.

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Cap10323 Author

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Nov 15, 2013 12:17 PM in response to Klaus1

You see Klaus, My iMac Cannot read Dual Layer discs.. I tried..

Any other options?

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Klaus1

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Nov 15, 2013 2:32 PM in response to Cap10323

Buy an external superdrive that does.

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Cap10323 Author

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Nov 15, 2013 3:54 PM in response to Klaus1

All you do is tell me to buy things..

You fail to see, The old iMac's Cannot Boot off USB, They have no ESATA Ports and They do not (To My knowlege make a Firewire Superdrive (Without heavy modification)

I know they made a Single layer Leopard discs... I can find evidance of this and I owned one.. Do you know where I might be able to buy one?

Many thanks

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Answer 8

Nov 15, 2013 5:05 PM in response to Cap10323

It is not worth it if you do find one it will be extremely over priced. what I recommend is getting a USB super drive. I know it can install from there because this is how I installed leopard on this machine it is even older its an imac g4. All you do is hold down options and chose it as the start up disk. you can try this out with disk you have look at this page http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1310. also make sure it is meet system requirements listed here http://support.apple.com/kb/sp517.

good luck

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Cap10323 Author

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Nov 16, 2013 8:27 AM in response to gadget guy101

Hmm.. It's expensive..

Will any old USB Disc drive work? I think I've got one kicking around somewhere.. Anyway, If push comes to shove, I'll buy one.

Thanks

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Answer 10

Nov 18, 2013 1:27 PM in response to Cap10323

also before buying any thing try to make a bootable thumb drive. there are tutorial on it if you don't know how.

good luck

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Cap10323 Author

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Nov 19, 2013 12:00 PM in response to gadget guy101

I will try a bootable flash drive, I dont know how to do that in Disc Utility.. I do know how to on windows though (I think).. Will that work? or does it have to be disc utility?

Cheers

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Cap10323 Author

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Jan 16, 2014 3:33 PM in response to Cap10323

I posted in here before, I have since bought myself a 2010 MacBook pro!

I am stil struggling with this iMac however..

I tried using "target disc mode" To install OSX On the Mac..however I cannot make the HDD of the iMac "Apple Partition Map" So I can install leopard... Biut the iMac cannot read it..

I also tried simply making the HDD a startup disc, But since I didn't actually install leopard.. I had no luck..

I dont want to buy a new leopard disc.. It's just not worth it for just this iMac.

Any ideas guys?

Cheers

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Cap10323 Author

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Jan 16, 2014 3:51 PM in response to Cap10323

I have just found out I was doing Target Disc Mode wrong.. I was suposed to put my MacBook in TGM Not the iMac..

now I have wiped Tiger off of the iMac.. So now no hope of doing target disc mode...

I now feel that I am completely up a gummed stump so to say.. And am most likely just going to throw out the iMac as it's driven me mad at this stage..

Thanks for the Help everyone..

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