Installing Leopard - Is there a way around this

Huggles

Hi folks, I got Leopard disk with my new MBP and I don't really wanna put it on my MBP cause I don't like the interface that much.

Anyways, I would however like to put it on my Imac G5 I don't use that much but I only have OS X 10.3.9....

Any ideas?

aidan_walsh

The disk supplied is likely tied to the MBP, so it is not possible to install it on any other model of Mac.

Huggles

aidan_walsh wrote: »

The disk supplied is likely tied to the MBP, so it is not possible to install it on any other model of Mac.

Its not, I installed it on a diff mac with 10.4 and it went fine, just wondering is there a way to update 10.3.9 up to the 10.4

WUSBDesign

My guess is that your Leopard disc is labelled "Upgrade DVD", right?

Boot up your MBP in Target Disk Mode, hook it up to the iMac G5 via Firewire, and start the Leopard installation from the iMac G5. The Upgrade DVD will look for a volume with 10.4 or later, finds it in the MBP and then proceed with installation.

Should work.

EDIT: you do have the appropriate licence(s), don't you?

babypink

Huggles wrote: »

Its not, I installed it on a diff mac with 10.4 and it went fine, just wondering is there a way to update 10.3.9 up to the 10.4

umm...Leopard is 10.5

10.4 is tiger

ZENER

WUSBDesign wrote: »

My guess is that your Leopard disc is labelled "Upgrade DVD", right?

Boot up your MBP in Target Disk Mode, hook it up to the iMac G5 via Firewire, and start the Leopard installation from the iMac G5. The Upgrade DVD will look for a volume with 10.4 or later, finds it in the MBP and then proceed with installation.

Should work.

EDIT: you do have the appropriate licence(s), don't you?

Are you sure that will work ? Will the install from a G5 to the Intel hard disk not install the wrong architecture for that machine ?

ZEN

muggyog

Huggles, just to confirm, you have installed 10.5 (which you dont like) on one Mac which had 10.4 and you now wish to install on a G5 with 10.3. What OS are you going to put on your new Intel machine?

The disk you got with your MBP is restore rather than install disk so I think Zener maybe correct.

WUSBDesign

ZENER wrote: »

Are you sure that will work ? Will the install from a G5 to the Intel hard disk not install the wrong architecture for that machine ?
ZEN

Provided the disc referred to is a Upgrade DVD, it should work. At least for me - I've done it for a Leopard Upgrade DVD (for a MacMini shipped with a Tiger bundled disc) on a MacMini PowerPC 1.25GHz.

Like everyone else, I was skeptical at first. Imagine my surprise!

Huggles

babypink wrote: »

umm...Leopard is 10.5

10.4 is tiger

Yes. Was pinting out that all I am missing is 10.4 cause user mentioned it wouldnt work if only for the MBP.

Huggles

muggyog wrote: »

Huggles, just to confirm, you have installed 10.5 (which you dont like) on one Mac which had 10.4 and you now wish to install on a G5 with 10.3. What OS are you going to put on your new Intel machine?

The disk you got with your MBP is restore rather than install disk so I think Zener maybe correct.

I have 10.4 on the MBP and a leopard dics came with it too, I tried it on the MBP but as its my primary machine I wanted to stick with 10.4.

WUSBDesign

Huggles wrote: »

I have 10.4 on the MBP and a leopard dics came with it too...

Leopard dics? Does that come from a endangered species?

muggyog

Bold!

WUSBDesign

muggyog wrote: »

Bold!

Completely agree! How did they do that with a live Leopard?

PS: sorry, a little OT here...

babypink

indeed.....back on topic please

ZENER

WUSBDesign wrote: »

Provided the disc referred to is a Upgrade DVD, it should work. At least for me - I've done it for a Leopard Upgrade DVD (for a MacMini shipped with a Tiger bundled disc) on a MacMini PowerPC 1.25GHz.

Like everyone else, I was skeptical at first. Imagine my surprise!

Maybe I didn't explain it properly. If I attach a PPC Mac in Target Mode to to an Intel Mac booted from a OSX Install disc and commence to install OSX won't the installer assume it is installing onto an Intel architecture rather than the PPC processor of the Mac in Target mode which will then attempt to boot an Intel kernel on a PPC Mac when it's restarted ?

ZEN

WUSBDesign

ZEN, I've read your post to no avail...

OP wants to install Leopard on the iMac G5 (with 10.3 at the mo). The MBP is only there as a valid 10.5 volume for the Upgrade DVD to proceed with installation onto the iMac G5.

Or am I off the target...again?

ZENER

My bad. I get you now, I thought you were suggesting something else completely.

Did the OP not say he had a new MBP with Leopard (10.5) ? I'm not disagreeing with you I'm just curious how the Upgrade disc would "Upgrade" what's already there. Also, if it is fooled, then will it not try to upgrade to the same architecture as on the MBP hard drive.

I was thinking of trying this a while back but came to the conclusion in my head that the 2 different CPU's wouldn't work out that way.

ZEN

WUSBDesign

Like I said, I was surprised myself.

Cannot say more now - got a warning/PM from a mod for my reminder to OP re the 4-letter abbreviation "EULA" .