Ibook g4 new Hd will not take leopard?

[brucelieb]

I just put in a new harddrive on my ibook g4. The old one died. I lost all my applications and info. So new start . Yippie, I guess. But It is operating at the Panther level that came with the computer orginaily. It will not except Leopard? I am confused cause I installed leopard before the HD death... What did I do wrong? Any help.
Hardware Overview:

Machine Model: iBook G4
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.5f0
Serial Number: UV436089R71
Memory -BUILTIN 256MB
DIMM1/j31 256MB
Size: 256 MB
Type: DDR SDRAM
Speed: PC2700U-25330

 

[brucelieb]

I forgot to mention apple care is way up.... but I might call since I purchased the leopard family pack...Maybe they will guide me?

 

[steviem]

It sounds like the hard disk is still setup to be put in a PC.

You should get the Leopard DVD to boot, but when it does go to Disk Utility, the Partition, set it to 1 partition and click options, make the Partition table set for PowerPCs, I recall its GUID, but it would explain in there.

Let it format the disk, go backwards to the first screen of the installer, and try the instal again.

 

[bradenwh]

I did not think you could install Leopard on a computer with a PowerPC G4 processor.

 

[bartelby]

I did not think you could install Leopard on a computer with a PowerPC G4 processor.

My PowerBook G4 runs Leopard very happily.

 

[nick9191]

I did not think you could install Leopard on a computer with a PowerPC G4 processor.

867mhz G4 or faster.

 

[old-wiz]

Leopard runs fine on a PowerPC system, just need minimum speed and ram. I use older iBook with Leoplard.

 

[krypticos]

yea heck my imac g4 700 mhz runs leopard just fine😀. lol. but i agree it sounds like you need to reformat the hd under disk utility.

 

[tayedrumma]

reformat to HFS + Journalled... Leopard will run like a charm after that. I loved my old ibook g4. Although, my new macbook spanks it