Power Mac G4 leopard Installation

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Ishaaq2000 Author

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Power Mac G4 leopard Installation

I really need to ask. I have a power Mac G4. Not the quicksilver one. The one with the floppy drive and stuff. It has a blank hdd. I have leopard disk but I can't boot into it for some reason. I opened it up and the disk drive was a cd drive, not a dvd drive. I put a dvd drive in but I am still unable to boot into the leopard disk. What can I do / what is possible for me to do now. The Mac is fully working if you need to know. I have abother imac if that could come in use as a tool

PowerMac, Mac OS 9.2.x

Posted on Jul 5, 2015 3:22 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Jul 5, 2015 5:51 PM in response to Ishaaq2000

Hi,

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, or not...

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

There are workarounds if the 867MHz CPU is the only hangup...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardassist/

http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/unsupported.html

Do you have another Mac with a DVD drive?

Is this a gray machine specific Disc, or the Retail version?

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Answer 2

Allan Jones

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Jul 6, 2015 8:52 AM in response to Ishaaq2000

If you enter your serial number in this page:

http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/

It will display your computer's specs as shipped, including the all-important processor speed. OS 10.5 "Leopard" will run on a PowerPC Mac (with 1GB RAM but more is better as DB Aqua points out.

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