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Mac OS X cannot be installed form this disk

mulo

mulo

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"Mac OS X cannot be installed form this disk"
what do you say? - never herd of it before until it happened to me just minutes ago. attempting to install leopard onto a PowerMac Dual G5 from a FireWire drive.
 
backup of a retail leopard disk, that I lost. - ran it over with my office chair.
thank god for backups!..
 
I don't even get to that point. I get that message as soon as I click the installer.

cannot install ~from~ this disk.
 
mulo said:
I don't even get to that point. I get that message as soon as I click the installer.

cannot install ~from~ this disk.
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Yes, I know it's "from this disk". That thread discussion appeared to address the same issue, but there's not much I could find elsewhere that addresses that particular issue. Since it's a copy, the disk may not work. It could be the copy didn't work correctly.
 
your right the image on the FW is broken. The original image is fine however, I made a copy on a thumb drive, I can boot off that no problem. that just doesn't solve the problems since G5's cant boot off thumb drives. I'll try to remake it and see if I get any different results.

edit: I'm putting a copy on the internal G5 volume as well, see if that turns out any better.
 
having problems creating the image on the internal drive, keep getting this error
"could not restore - device not configured"
 
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