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Help with my 20" iMac G5 2005

Well, the original G5s shipped with Panther, so there is a chance that the drivers for your iMac are in the standard Panther disc. If this is the case, follow gavinstubbs09's post, connect the FireWire cable and put the mini into TDM. This way you can use the mini's internal ODD to install the OS.

Now, you do have all 3 Panther CDs correct?

If that doesn't work, you would have to buy a later retail copy of Panther (10.3.5 was the last sold for Retail, IIRC). I would recommend installing 10.4 or 10.5. Since it is a G5 it does 64-bit and 10.5 Leopard runs great on it. Apple no longer allows 10.3 to connect to the Software Update server, so the updates have to be installed manually.
 
Update

Cable has arrived and I'm in TDM

I have put the new hard drive in the iMac and managed to format it using the Mac Mini disk utility (osx extended Journaled) is this correct

But when I put the Panter disc in the Mini how do I get it onto the iMac via TDM ?

When I run the installer on the Mini I get told No
 

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Just tried that and it won't work, maybe the wrong discs ??
 

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Then this screen

between the 2 screens I get the white screen with the apple logo in the middle
 

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Rottweiler01 said:
Then this screen

between the 2 screens I get the white screen with the apple logo in the middle
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OK.

Do you have an external HDD docking station by chance? If not then there's another way if you have certain things.

Are you the original owner of the Mac Mini and do you have this restore discs? If so, you could back up your current SL to Time Machine, then restore the Mini to th version of Tiger that it shipped with. Then you could use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone that configuration to the iMac and have it running Tiger.

You could then restore the Mini to a Time Machine backup and be running SL again right where you left off.

That could be a hassle, but it is a much cheaper way to do it and would not have made the purchase of the FW cable a waste.

Do you particularly want the iMac to be running Panther though? I don't remember now if that's what you ultimately wanted or not.
 
Yes I do have an external HD dock

I have snow leopard disc but it's not the original

I think the iMac can only run up
To Leopard, it shipped with Panther according to Apple
 
Rottweiler01 said:
Yes I do have an external HD dock
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Well that's a bonus. Is it FW or USB I/O?

Do you have the original restore discs from the Mini?

And what type of HDD is it?

What if I made a clone of my iBook G3 system that's running OS X Tiger 10.4.11 with all the updates? Could you then use the mini to copy that to the external HDD or even to the iMac directly from a disc? It might not be economical though
 
It's usb

I changed the hard drive recently in the Mini to a 250GB

And used the snow leopard disc I bought from apple for £14 to clean install, it works great now

Don't have any original disc that would have shipped with either machine
 
Rottweiler01 said:
It's usb

I changed the hard drive recently in the Mini to a 250GB

And used the snow leopard disc I bought from apple for £14 to clean install, it works great now

Don't have any original disc that would have shipped with either machine
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I just sent you a PM by the way.
 
Ok after being lent a Tiger Disk It still won't install so I'm guessing it might have been a different version of Tiger

Please see pictures and any more thoughts please
 

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Rottweiler01 said:
Tried again and it just stuck with Apple logo and spinning circle
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Man, that sucks!!!

When you inserted the disc in the Mini, did it at least allow you to run it there and did it recognize it properly? If so, then you might have to do the Time Machine backup of SL and then install Tiger to the mini and then clone it to the HDD on the iMac to get it working.

It is 10.4.6 (which as far as I know wasn't Intel only. If memory serves me correctly, 10.4.7 was released with the first slew of Intel machines but 10.4.6 should have worked.

Well anyway, Sorry that it didn't work!!
 
Thanks anyway
It says on the top line of the crash screen that there are drivers missing so maybe that version isn't correct

I saw these on ebay and think these could be what I need

Item number 291109047739

If anyone has a set and are willing upload for me that would be great

Any other ideas welcome
 
physical assistance?

Had a thought that maybe someone local to the OP might be able to help.

If the OP can get him/her plus their machine to someone, say with another iMac G5 would that get over some of these hurdles?

If it helps i'm in london uk with an operational 2005 iMac G5 ALS running Leopard. iirc it came with Tiger disks.

i removed the internal optical drive some time ago to get 2 hdds running, but i'm fairly sure it still works - my problem would simply be finding it!
 
tigerintank said:
Had a thought that maybe someone local to the OP might be able to help.

If the OP can get him/her plus their machine to someone, say with another iMac G5 would that get over some of these hurdles?

If it helps i'm in london uk with an operational 2005 iMac G5 ALS running Leopard. iirc it came with Tiger disks.

i removed the internal optical drive some time ago to get 2 hdds running, but i'm fairly sure it still works - my problem would simply be finding it!
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I'm in phoenix with an iBook G3(that I used to install Tiger onto my iMac G5 1.8GHz) and an iBook G4 that could do the same thing. It would only take about an hour. Done and Done!
 
RedCroissant said:
I'm in phoenix with an iBook G3(that I used to install Tiger onto my iMac G5 1.8GHz) and an iBook G4 that could do the same thing. It would only take about an hour. Done and Done!
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ok so thats Europe and North America covered - any more takers :D
 
could someone upload there disc to drop box or copy them I'm happy to cover postage and cost of discs
 
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Rottweiler01 said:
O we'll, looks like another old mac heads of to the knackers yard
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WHAT???? send it to me then! :) I would seriously take it.

Does the Mini accept the OS X 10.4.6 version? If so, then try downgrading to Tiger via that disc, updating it to 10.4.11 and then using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the contents of your Mac Mini HDD (as long as it's formatted in Apple Partition Map format) to the iMac. It might take a couple of hours, but it should work. If that's not working then send it to someone. If you want, send it to me, and I'll send it back to you.
 
The Mini's Tiger discs are Intell only and cannot be used to boot the G5 iMac. It wasn't until Leopard that restore discs became universal.
 
Intell said:
The Mini's Tiger discs are Intell only and cannot be used to boot the G5 iMac. It wasn't until Leopard that restore discs became universal.
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That I know. What I said was use the 10.4.6 disc that he has to downgrade the mini to Tiger. The he could download the combo update which is still PPC and Intel code to 10.4.11. He could then clone the contents of the HDD over to the iMac using CCC or another app. Then he should have an iMac that's running 10.4.11 and then he can restore the Mini from a time machine backup of his SL install and be done with it.

The OP said that he didn't have the original discs.
 
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