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help installing Leopard on new HD and no DVD drive.
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If you have Leopard installed on some other hard drive I'd put that one in too and install from there (or just clone it)!
I'm not sure how external DVD-readers work with an OS-install (with all the rebooting and so on), but I think that would be an option as well.
I'm not sure how external DVD-readers work with an OS-install (with all the rebooting and so on), but I think that would be an option as well.
An external DVD player will work fine. If you don't have one around, this might be a good occasion to buy an internal replacement for your G5. They are very cheap nowadays; I have seen them as low as under $20. The installation is quite easy.
If you do have another computer with Leopard running on it, firewire target mode is always an option.
If you do have another computer with Leopard running on it, firewire target mode is always an option.
I don't think that will work in this case because one machine is PowerPC and the other is Intel.
If you have an 8 gig flash drive, you can clone the install dvd to the flash drive, then use that to do the install.
Can I do that with a 40gb external HD? Any instructions on how to clone the drive?
You should be able to.
A quick google search came up with this:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=972
You should be able to do that on your MacBook Pro.
Create a small (8gig should do it) partition that can boot a power mac.
Then use the instructions to copy the installer to the partition.
A quick google search came up with this:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=972
You should be able to do that on your MacBook Pro.
Create a small (8gig should do it) partition that can boot a power mac.
Then use the instructions to copy the installer to the partition.
It does work. That's how I installed Leopard on my G4 (DVD drive is dead). The other computer was a Intel iMac running 10.6
Can you explain how you did that? It never worked for me.
Here's what I did. I guess one of the steps is wrong.
I boot the MacBook using a retail 10.5 disc (yes I know the difference).
I connect the hard drive (where I want to install OS X) to the MacBook using a SATA to USB converter (I will put the drive in my PowerMac after OSX is on it).
The MacBook sees my hard drive and lets me format it as Apple Partition Map.
But it won't let me install the OS on the drive. It tells me that drive is not formatted correctly.
I can format it as GUID and install OSX, but then the PowerMac can't boot from it.
Thanks everyone.Got it installed. I used a USB enclosure and created 2 partions on my hardrive, cloned the osx cd to 1 partion. Installed the hard drive back into the G5 and booted to the OSX install partition.
That's roughly how I did on one of my older computers and then I got stuck with two partitions since I couldn't merge them (Disk Utility told me it could only merge partitions on a disk that wasn't also the startup disk). I'm going to try and merge them from an OS-install disc in the future when I get my hands on a external DVD drive but... it's not my top priority nowadays.
Ye I know of that problem. It's because you install from the intel Mac.
You need to connect the computers with a FireWire cable, and have the disk in the ppc computer already. Then start in target disk mode, and the ppc Mac will boot from the drive in the intel Mac via the FireWire cable.