I have a Powermac G5 Quad running Leopard and am receiving today a Mac Pro 3.1 8 core which also has Leopard installed. Just wondering if a clone of my Powermac G5 drive would would work as a startup drive for the Mac Pro, even though the Mac Pro of course has intell processors. I'm guessing it probably won't, but just wanted to check. Thanks for any help.
No. One is PowerPC based the other of course Intel.
You probably want to pick up 10.6.3 DVD from Apple and then upgrade to 10.6.8+ to be supported. Later you can decide if you want or need Mavericks or something inbetween.
I would not even put your G5 system inside, I would mount it via Firewire external, import the files to a 2nd internal hard rive in your 2008.
Then plan on two backup drives, one for TimeMachine and one to clone your system and always have a bootable backup.
As for the 2008 already having a system, you may just want to wipe it clean and start fresh with your own system and apps. Unless they provided master copies and serial numbers etc.
I would say not - Leopard had universal builds, but I don't believe it will have installed the correct drivers for your MP. Still, if you wanted to try, install the drive in a bay and hold down the option key on boot, see what happens.
Matt
I thank you obth for your help. I need to stay with 10.5 leopard because FCP 6 won't work with 10.6 and I need to stick with 10.5 because 10.6 won't work with my g5's.
Some installs of Leopard for the G5 create G5-specific images. These will not run on anything else, not even a G4.
If you have certain "Full Retail" versions of leopard DVDs with 10.5.6 or later, they can be used to Boot and run certain Mac Pro models.
| Mac Pro | Date introduced |
Original Mac OS X included |
Later Mac OS X included |
Mac OS X Build(s) |
| Mac Pro (Mid 2012) | Jun 2012 | 10.7.3 | 10.8, 10.8.3 | 11D2001, 12A269, 12D78 |
| Mac Pro (Mid 2010) | Aug 2010 | 10.6.4 | 10.7, 10.7.2, 10.7.3 | 10F2521, 10F2554, 11A511a, 11C74, 11D2001 |
| Mac Pro with Mac OS X Server (Mid 2010) | Aug 2010 | 10.6.4 | 10.7, 10.7.2, 10.7.3 (Server) | 10F2522, 11A511a, 11C74, 11D2001 (Server) |
| Mac Pro (Early 2009) | Mar 2009 | 10.5.6 | 10.6 | 9G3553, 10A432 |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) | Jan 2008 |
10.5.1 |
10.5.2, 10.5.4 |
9B2117, 9C2031, 9E25 |
| Mac Pro | Aug 2006 |
10.4.7 |
10.4.8, 10.4.9, 10.4.10, 10.5 |
8K1079, 8N1430, 8N1250, 8K1124, 8P4037, 8R3032, 8R3041, 9A581, 9A3129 |
will mac pro 3.1 startup fron the leopard 10.5.8 clone of a powermac g5 quad,
