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Leopard Install on iBook G4
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I've connected an Apple Super Drive with the DVD inside and the ibook won't see it on the desktop.
i've now connected an LG DVD drive with the DVD inside and the ibook can see the Leopard DVD on the desktop....!!!! I click on the DVD icon, i then get the osx installer restart window, i restart and it boots back up on Panther!
i've now connected an LG DVD drive with the DVD inside and the ibook can see the Leopard DVD on the desktop....!!!! I click on the DVD icon, i then get the osx installer restart window, i restart and it boots back up on Panther!
Because PPC Macs can't just boot from USB that easily. There are known hacks in OpenFirmware. I don't know if this will help but for what it's worth: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384
Also, http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20101011105729488
Intell will be jumping in here in 1....2....3....
Also, http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20101011105729488
Intell will be jumping in here in 1....2....3....
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I hath been summoned by thy name. *Puts cheese hat on jrsx* The OP's iBook is one of the newer iBooks that can't easily boot to a USB device. He (she?) must use the OpenFirmware modification method.
Ok, I will trust you Intell, I have never been able to boot into USB myself, but I thought maybe it worth a try for the OP.
Installing Leopard
Hi, I have an Ibook G4 w/1gb ram running with a 1.2 processor, you can install Leopard but only with a apple software dvd
Hi, I have an Ibook G4 w/1gb ram running with a 1.2 processor, you can install Leopard but only with a apple software dvd
Thanks for all the help, I will try the Open Firmware "hacks" & report back.
btw I'm a "he"
If I go down the buy a Leopard DVD , which one do I need to,look for?
btw I'm a "he"
If I go down the buy a Leopard DVD , which one do I need to,look for?
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Isn't there a hack to get them to install on a PPC based Mac, since the disks actually include PPC binaries?
Some Macs (2003 is the time it changed) can not read DVD+DL media. So if your Leopard install is a self-burned one, be sure that it is compatible, i.e. not on a +DL medium.
Burn it on a DVD-DL or if you like to "tinker" use a DVD+DL capable drive. Put it in the Apple Superdrive or in the ibook itself.
You are in Greece, right? If I am right the price in Europe for
DVD-DL media is 1,50EUR/piece
DVD+DL media is 0,33EUR/piece
If you really burn a lot Dual/Double Layer DVDs, the DVD+DL capable drive might be the better option in the long run.
If you barely use the Drive anyway I would opt for buying the compatible media, because opening the ibook is a lot of work for a tinker-novice.
I am not sure, if it is OK (MODs may delete it for me, then), but I have a bunch of DVD+DL drives, I am giving away (see marketplace), which is not the reason, why I say the above written info.
It's a PITA! You first have to identify what drive ID the system gives to the USB device. Then you have to feed that in to OF to check what OF's shortcut for it is. Then you have to check to see if an appropriate BootX driver is ON the device in the appropriate boot folder. Then and only then can you tell OF to boot following the path specified to the BootX loader!
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Ok, I will trust you Intell, I have never been able to boot into USB myself, but I thought maybe it worth a try for the OP.
I've done it twice and it's always a hassle. The last time so I could get the driver for my G4's cpus installed on the boot drive. Wouldn't do it from my Powerbook without booting from the PBs internal drive so I had to pull it out, stick it in a USB case and boot the PB from that. Ugh!