Installing 10.5 Leopard Issue

[trewyn15]

Did you take the front bezel off the optical drive so it will work normally with the drive door? I was reviewing your other thread and it didn't appear that you removed it.

No, that bezel wasn't removable on that drive as far as I could see so it just sat sideways for the install. The original superdrive is back in, trying to keep it as original as possible for now. I may pick up a 1TB drive or so and dual boot it on Windows 7, but not sure if I want to do that or if it's even possible.

 

[eyoungren]

I may pick up a 1TB drive or so and dual boot it on Windows 7, but not sure if I want to do that or if it's even possible.

Not possible.

Not natively anyway. You need an emulator. Virtual PC 7 or the Q emulator. Windows can then be run under emulation. XP is dog slow and using an undocumented feature you can get Win 7 and 8 to install but don't expect to be able to do anything at all with them. XP is about as far as you can go and still have some useability.

 

[trewyn15]

Not possible.

Not natively anyway. You need an emulator. Virtual PC 7 or the Q emulator. Windows can then be run under emulation. XP is dog slow and using an undocumented feature you can get Win 7 and 8 to install but don't expect to be able to do anything at all with them. XP is about as far as you can go and still have some useability.

We did dual boot leopard and XP back in hichschool, but that was what, 6 years ago? That seems about right really haha

I may try that, but I have my other machine connected to this monitor too so I may just switch between the two.

 

[eyoungren]

We did dual boot leopard and XP back in hichschool, but that was what, 6 years ago? That seems about right really haha

I may try that, but I have my other machine connected to this monitor too so I may just switch between the two.

Well, six years ago would have been 2008. If the Macs at your school were new then they would have been Mac Pros, which have the Intel chip. The Mac Pros up until now use the same box that the G5 uses. The only way to tell the difference is if there are two drive doors in front it's an MP. If there is one, it's a G5. You can tell from the backside two (G5s have two fan exhaust grills instead of the one in the MPs).

Regardless, no PowerPC Mac (and your G5 is a PowerPC Mac) can natively boot Windows. Just not possible. Only the Intel Macs can dual boot and some of them have limitations on which version of Windows.

 

[trewyn15]

Well, six years ago would have been 2008. If the Macs at your school were new then they would have been Mac Pros, which have the Intel chip. The Mac Pros up until now use the same box that the G5 uses. The only way to tell the difference is if there are two drive doors in front it's an MP. If there is one, it's a G5. You can tell from the backside two (G5s have two fan exhaust grills instead of the one in the MPs).

Regardless, no PowerPC Mac (and your G5 is a PowerPC Mac) can natively boot Windows. Just not possible. Only the Intel Macs can dual boot and some of them have limitations on which version of Windows.

Yeah, I know the differences. They weren't towers though, I think they were iMacs, but I have trouble remembering back that far haha

I'll probably just keep my setup the way it is so that when my PowerMac is off my W7 laptop turns on, and vice versa.