Mycatisbigfoot

I have a AGP power mac, that I would like to upgrade to osx 10.5, I have 1 gb of ram and 2 120 GB hard drives with a 400MH core, I am trying to use the leo asist, and its not wanting to boot off the disk i have, I have a retail disk, this dvd drive does boot macs, I have tryed booting os 9 from the disk and that works, would there be a way to get 10.5 on this mac? This is the only g4 mac i own and i want it to be my server

ChilBear

Leopard will install only on G4 with an minimum of 867 or higher processor. Tiger is more than enough as an OS for the machine. I have a G4 867 and have left it at Tiger and it works very well as sometimes I need to run OS9.

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Carter

I believe last year for the hell of it i got Leopard to install onto a PowerMac G4 450MHz using Leopard Assist. I may have to try it again to see if it's do able for sure.

According to the System requirements for LeopardAssist there maybe issues with a Early PCI Graphics G4 towers. You can see the requirements here. LeopardAssist | Install Mac OS X Leopard on Older G4s.

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Mycatisbigfoot

Well I just tryed booting to os 9 and it wont boot, I think what happened here was the dvd drive fell, I do rember that, so what i am going to put the old dvd drive back in and see if that works, I do know when it was but it wont read disks

Mycatisbigfoot

Wow, 10.5 runs good, I am very surprised,

This computer has been thought 8.6 - 10.5 and soon to 10.5 server

This computer has held up its name, The power mac g4! Its so good to have my first g4 tho

And thanks, guys , it was just the stupid dvd reader,

krs

My oldest Mac is also a 400MHz AGP G4 and I have been toying with the idea to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard.
Would you say yours runs as fast with Leopard as with Tiger?

Mycatisbigfoot

Its ok, not super fast, I have 1gb of ram and 400MH,

Its like 10.4 on a 500MH Imac g3, but you do need a 32mb video card and i do not have that, I am going to get another one soon tho or get a better power mac, I am going to be using the computer as a server tho

krs

Well - I tried the upgrade to leopard on my old G4 today and so far I'm not too happy.
The G4 now has a dual 450 GHz processor in it, also the full RAM and two 1.5 TB SATA Hard drives.

I wanted a set up where I can boot into Tiger or Leopard on different hard drives - basically because some hardware/software I use will only run on Tiger, not Leopard and other software which I want to use requires Leopard as a minimum.

The first thing that bugged me is that all my mail was going to be converted somehow, then I tried to launch MS Excel 2004 but all I got was the spinning colour wheel - maybe that software is not Leopard compatible.
Sounds like upgrading from Tiger to leopard could become a major exercise especially if one wants to go back and forth between it and Tiger.
Anyone doing something like that? What are the biggest issues?
Maybe I just need to forget that idea totally.

ChilBear

Here's an idea. How about getting it running just nice in Tiger (my G4 867 is Tiger) and MS Excel should work fine. Clone the HD using CCC and restore the clone to a different HD (internal) so you may be required to unconnect the Tiger HD first. Then upgrade to OS to Leopard and you should be good I would think. I used Migration Assistant to move my G4 to my Alum Intel after installing Leopard and everything including Office 2001 works.

On thing is the duplication of the programs plus some data, so a little deleting and things may be just fine.

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irontree

I have a G4/450 (Rage 128 pro) kicking around and I recently tried to install Leopard on it. First I got kernal panics whenever it tried to boot from the DVD so I updated the firmware. Then after it booted it told me to get lost and that I couldn't install this software on this mac... oh well... back to tiger