Install snow leopard on g4

The good news is that Mac OS X The bad news is that the Leopard installer refuses to let you install it on any Mac slower than MHz. The good news is that there are ways to get around the installer. There are two ways of getting around installer limitations. The most common one thus far requires that you have a supported Mac.

UPDATE: The folks at iCode have taken the information from this article and used it to create LeopardAssist , a free program that automates this process and eliminates the need to fiddle with OpenFirware on your own. Before you install Leopard, you should know that some features may not work on older, unsupported hardware.

One of the earliest unsupported installations was reported on Engadget. He did a clean installation on a freshly wiped 20 GB hard drive, and he reports that performance feels comparable to Mac OS X Again, a supported video card might fix this. Applemacanix buys PC versions of these cards, flashes them for use on the Mac, and sells them via eBay.

The benefits of the Nvidia card include no cooling fan, low power consumption, and no need for an auxiliary power connector. We will update this article if we receive field reports confirming or disproving this. The Leopard installer is over 6. This is a temporary modification that resets itself the next time you restart your Mac.

You have some options here. If that works — and it should — you can either choose to keep working from the external drive or clone that drive to your internal drive. Our favorite program for this kind of thing, SuperDuper! Thanks in advance for any field reports, as this will help us get a better picture of how well Mac OS X Low End Mac is funded primarily through donations.

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Welcome Image and Text. It does backup. Time Machine appears to require Core Animation. All I get on my iMac is a "finder" with a question mark. Is there any suggestions or tips about how I can get my iMac to run properly using Leopard????

More Less. Reply I have this question too 1 I have this question too Me too 1 Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Loading page content. User profile for user: Kenichi Watanabe Kenichi Watanabe. And it's not because the OS installation is different. What you may be able to do instead, is the following. Use the MacBook to install a fresh Leopard installation onto an external drive.

Restart from it and run Software Update, and make sure it is working. Then restart from the MacBook's own drive again. Instead of using the Erase tab, use the Partition tab. Use a cloning utility, such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, to clone the fresh Leopard installation from the external drive to the iMac's hard drive.

Since cloning is done at the volume level, not the drive level, you should get a bootable clone of the Leopard installation on a drive that can be booted by a PowerPC Mac. Leopard is universal so I think the above method will work. However, there may be complications such as the proper drivers for an MHz iMac G4 not being present in the Leopard installation, because Apple does not officially support that model with Leopard.

Note: To be legal, the Leopard license you are using must not be currently used on another Mac. If the MacBook is currently using that Leopard license, you should not do it for legal reasons. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: Afzal Hassan1 Afzal Hassan1. Your copy of Leopard is unlicensed a. If they gave you the original install discs that came with the iMac when new should be OS X v.

Pick up a retail copy of Leopard if you want to run Leopard on it. User profile for user: a brody a brody. So i have to get the original OS for the G And to get it all right, I have to buy a copy of Mac OS Will that work??

Hmmmm that's not gonna be easy in Denmark If all you want is User profile for user: AxL AxL. The two grey Panther So now i need to find a retail copy of Thats gonna be hard ind little Denmark, specially if it's gonna be as cheap as possible User profile for user: K Shaffer K Shaffer.