Leo install failing

WHat is the EXACT error you get, as "contest from essentials" is a bit vague.
And on what medium is the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard installer?

 

Try using the actual retail disc and not a pirated version of Leopard.

 

Leo is not a big fan of retail software as indicated in this quote of his from another forum...
as you can see he feels it is a "pain in the ass" supporting software authors.

'seems like nothing for Mac OS X is free i had to find cracks for Xslimmer AppDelete AND MainMenu also had to find cracks to Toast 10 and MS Office 2008 with Windows theres tons of free alternatives with mac not so much it is a pain in the ass having to hunt down a crack to EVERY non apple app i did have iWork 09 installed and cracked it but didnt see much point in its purpose or use AppleWorks was a much better program over all only thing i didnt have to crack was iLife 06'

 

While I agree that it's best to purchase software legally, Apple doesn't even sell Leopard anymore from what I recall. All that's out there for the most part are used install disks that have already been installed on a Macintosh before anyway. If anyone should be scolded it's retailers that sell disks that have already used their "licenses" for marked up prices.

EDIT: I'm certainly not condoning pirating software, I'm just making this argument for old install disks. I'm a license holder for XSlimmer, MS Office 2008, iLife '09, and iWork '09 and proud to support those who continue to support this platform.

 

If the product you want isn't being sold anymore, of course you can borrow it from the internet. That's a no brainer. But I thought Leopard was still being supplied by Apple... I'm sure I read about it somewhere? Maybe I got things mixed up.

Leo: Have you tried burning the image to a DVD and install that way?

 

I went into the Apple Store a couple of days ago, & walked out with a free copy of Leopard. I said I was still on Jaguar & can't find any version of OS X anywhere (which is a bit of a lie) but they said okay, we may have a copy of Leopard you can have.

 

You're getting that error became you're trying to use a corrupted pirated version of Leopard.

 

I suppose we can only hope that once you reach puberty you'll be mature enough to see the error of your ways.

 

Mine works fine with 2Gb. When the eMac was made 1Gb sticks of ram didn't exist for the models that can take 2Gb. Thus, Apple set the limit to 1Gb of 2x512Mb.