Hi there,
I got ahold of a iMac G5 (PowerMac8,1) with no hard drive. I stuck a hard drive in it, and since I had an image of Tiger handy, I burned it to disc and installed it. I noticed that I could not get it to install from USB (boot while holding Option and choose an image on a USB drive, which is what I've been doing to install Tiger on G4s), but since I was able to burn a disc, I figured no sweat!
I want to put Leopard on here, but the aforementioned inability to boot from USB means I have to burn a dual layer DVD. I procured two different images, one DMG and one ISO from the internet. My 2008 Macbook Pro with superdrive gives a "there was a problem communicating with the disc drive" while burning and quits. My 2012 Macbook Air with an external DVD burner just hangs up on "finishing burn"; I tried using this disc but the G5 just spits it out when I try to boot from it.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I did try to burn the installation disc from the G5 itself, but it just spits out the blank dual layer DVDs I stick in it.
I found the installation disks that came with a Macbook Pro. It freezes on the Apple screen with spinning wheel. I let it go for about a half hour and it never seems to progress past that point.
Other than finding a retail disc, does anyone have any other advice? Or should I just roll with Tiger on this thing?
I got ahold of a iMac G5 (PowerMac8,1) with no hard drive. I stuck a hard drive in it, and since I had an image of Tiger handy, I burned it to disc and installed it. I noticed that I could not get it to install from USB (boot while holding Option and choose an image on a USB drive, which is what I've been doing to install Tiger on G4s), but since I was able to burn a disc, I figured no sweat!
I want to put Leopard on here, but the aforementioned inability to boot from USB means I have to burn a dual layer DVD. I procured two different images, one DMG and one ISO from the internet. My 2008 Macbook Pro with superdrive gives a "there was a problem communicating with the disc drive" while burning and quits. My 2012 Macbook Air with an external DVD burner just hangs up on "finishing burn"; I tried using this disc but the G5 just spits it out when I try to boot from it.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I did try to burn the installation disc from the G5 itself, but it just spits out the blank dual layer DVDs I stick in it.
I found the installation disks that came with a Macbook Pro. It freezes on the Apple screen with spinning wheel. I let it go for about a half hour and it never seems to progress past that point.
Other than finding a retail disc, does anyone have any other advice? Or should I just roll with Tiger on this thing?
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