The Tiger combo/universal updater doesn't make a system universal. It'd still be all Intell only. The combo updater contains two sets of binaries, one for PowerPC and one for Intell. It only installs one of the sets it contains. If he did what you're suggesting, he'd end up with an Intell installation of Tiger on an APM formatted drive.
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Help with my 20" iMac G5 2005
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I thought that since Tiger was universal, that the installed OS contained both binaries. Isn't that why people use the app Monolingual, to remove the Intel portions of the OS?
OP, have you checked your Ram? My G5 iMac gave me some similar errors when i upgraded it to 2GB. It turned out one of the modules was bad. It wasn't the OS discs in my case because i have a ton of them, both retail, and for most of the machines.
The OS itself wasn't universal until Leopard. People use binary slimmers to remove non-executable code from applications. They don't work on Tiger's OS files because most if not all of them are already mono-architecture.
Couldn't you alternatively restore the Leopard disk image created from the DVD to a separate partition, and boot from it to begin installing?
So would it have to be a restored disk image, or can you boot off of just the disk image itself (on a different partition)?
Am I missing something, why can't I just install leopard directly onto the imac ?
Was there another's version of osx between Panther and Leopard
This is all getting a bit confusing.....
Was there another's version of osx between Panther and Leopard
This is all getting a bit confusing.....
Use retail. The gray disks won't work, as they are for Intel machines only.
You could alternately get a white restore disk from Apple, if you are lucky.
Spoke to Apple last week, no recovery/restore support anymore for Leopard downwards only snow leopard...
The you should be able to find an inexpensive Leopard installation DVD out there. Usually people forget that OS X 10.5.1 can be easily updated to 10.5.8 with a simple download of one .dmg.
SO look on eBay or Amazon for a Leopard disc that is 10.5.1 and you're golden. Download the combo update manually and store it on an external HDD or something and then any time you have to reinstall the OS, you always have that update available. That's what i do.
Update, a friend have sourced a Leopard install dmg on a memory stick but when I try it at boot it doesn't show also if I go through the installer via memory stick at desktop it launches the install set up restarts and goes back to the desk top, how do I make the dmg bootable or create a dvd to boot from using my mini ?
Move the disk image to your desktop, open disk utility, drag the disk image to the pane in DU that has the hard drives, click on it, and select burn, and it will burn to the DVD in your DVD drive.