Iupdate G5 from OS 10.4.11 to a more current OS.

Hello, G5s can only run 10.5.8 at the highest.

Leopard requirements/10.5.x...

* Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor

minimum system requirements

* 512MB of memory (I say 1.5GB for PPC at least, 2-3GB minimum for IntelMacs)

* DVD drive for installation

* 9GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)

Classic/OS9 Apps no longer supported.

May be available from Apple again???

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4720126?tstart=0

Trouble is Apple no longer sells it, check eBay & such for the Retail version, not the Gray Discs...

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mac+os+x+leopard+retail+10.5

I advise:

1. Make a bootable clone of whole hard disk to an external disk with Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Make sure you can boot from the external disk
3. Erase internal hard disk with new install DVD & partitioning into 2 volumes
4. Install new OS on one volume
5. Don't import anything during install process - it may reintroduce historic problems
6. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to return bootable original OS to the other volume
7. Keep using Software Update on new OS until it can update no more
8. If practical install non-Apple applications to new OS with their installer DVDs
9. Copy data files from old OS to new as required

BDAqua wrote:

May be available from Apple again???

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4720126?tstart=0

Probably one the cleaning staff found behind a filing cabinet.

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