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Dropbox may have messed with this. It occasionally happens when using cloud services.
There's a fairly good chance this is what is causing your problem. Try to get a copy of the DVD.
I would say a Power Mac G5 no, not for a long while yet.
They were never "that" rare. They were manufactured for a good 3 years before being replaced by the Mac Pro in summer 2006. They will still be a hobbyists thing, and worthy being part of a collection, but I doubt they would be worth anything substantial for the next 15-20 years, as long as they are kept it top notch condition.
Apple collectors items You have to look at stuff like the TAM, G4 Cube, Power CD, Pippin, stuff that had a very short life, when released.
They were never "that" rare. They were manufactured for a good 3 years before being replaced by the Mac Pro in summer 2006. They will still be a hobbyists thing, and worthy being part of a collection, but I doubt they would be worth anything substantial for the next 15-20 years, as long as they are kept it top notch condition.
Apple collectors items You have to look at stuff like the TAM, G4 Cube, Power CD, Pippin, stuff that had a very short life, when released.
FYI - It's dual layer.
10.6 upwards were slimmed down and fit on a single layer disc.
Oh no they weren't. All require an 8GB flash drive for restoration purposes. All those print drivers and extra languages outweighed the saving in PPC code.
Ok... So I have obtained a completely working copy (verified with SHA1 Checksum) of OS X Leopard's install disk... It's 6.7 GB in size and cannot fit onto my DVDs, I copied it to a flash drive and placed it onto the 2nd HDD on the PowerMac. How do I install it without having a physical disk?
You can either restore the image to a small 10 GB partition on the hard drive or to the flash drive. I like having a recovery partition so that is how I do it.
No... So I should press restart and then after I hear the chimes, press option and then boot from whatever the source is?
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Ok thanks... I'm restoring the files that were on the dmg to a flash drive, so what do I select when I get to the startup selection screen after it shows up?
You would click the drive and hit enter. It would then boot into the Leopard Installer where you can select Disk Utility from the Utilities tab on the menu bar. You are probably going to erase the whole drive.
After I put it onto my flash drive, I tried to run the installer and it said that it couldn't run off that volume. If I just selected it from the dmg, and pressed option at boot, the only choice was to boot OS x off of the main hdd
Did you properly restore the image or simply copy it? If you just copied it, well then it is a dumb file on an otherwise empty partition.
I restored it using disk utility, I also made sure the flash drive was formatted with the Apple partition map...
Try doing a partition as some USB drives will not work, especially those with special software like the SanDisk Cruzer series. I have had good luck with PNY drives however.
i believe i found a website that will work...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Create-a-Bootable-Mac-OS-X-USB-Disk-214329.shtml
Correctamundo - InstallESD is only part of the App Store installs.
I'd hazard a guess that a DMG created from optical media and the InstallESD would work in similar ways.
The InstallESD reference from the link is with respect to Lion, not Leopard:
"The steps above can also be used to create a bootable Mac OS X Lion USB by using the InstallESD.dmg image you can find inside the Lion installer"
The link is not referencing InstallESD for building a Leopard USB drive.
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