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Install 10.5 On a Intel Mac but running it on PPC

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mbenven

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HEy guys, for some reason, my friend iMac, a G5, won't read OS X 10.5. So I had her send me her HD, plug it in as an esternal and planning to install OSX from my mac, a Mac Book Core 2 Duo, and send it back to her.

Would that work? or when i plug the HD back in the PPC it will miss something?

What i mean, does the installation instal some files that are just for Intel or Just for PPC or OS X installation is universal like any other app?

Tnx again
 
While technically the install is the same, the boot sector format for a bootable HDD for a PPC is different than one for an Intel Mac. Therefore, I'm not sure if it will work or not.

If you can do it on a G4, that would be more likely to not have problems.
 
Random Chaos said:
While technically the install is the same, the boot sector format for a bootable HDD for a PPC is different than one for an Intel Mac. Therefore, I'm not sure if it will work or not.

If you can do it on a G4, that would be more likely to not have problems.
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A Quad G5 can boot that way. It might not work with older systems. Best to install using a PPC system.
 
Sounds to me like it will not work. I would suggest to do a firewire disk mode between the computers to install it.

Also all G5s should be able to run 10.5. It might be a good idea to find out why she can not run it.
 
The boot partitions is GUID under the intel mac for 10.5 -- which won't work as one on the PPC.

I think that was one of the snags for people updating from 10.4 to 10.5 who had to reformat their Intel Macs under the new OS.

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There were some DVDs that didn't work on some machines requiring some tricks to use the same DVD, but if the DVD has been checked once -- don't waste the time on that process again.
 
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