Ah, yes the processor limitation. Fooling it works. I used to put drives in a 1ghz G4 and install the system, move the disks to a non-supported G4 and they would work. What is the size of the drive you are trying to install the system on? I think there is a 128gb limit unless you install Hi-Cap. The PowerMac G4 MDD was Apple’s last Mac capable of dual-booting into both Mac OS 9 and OS X. The last of the G4 towers, this model was originally introduced in 2002, briefly evolved into an OS X-only configuration with FireWire 800 in 2003, then returned to the original design for another year. Mac OS X Leopard Install DVDVersion 10.5.42Z691-6232-A. If anyone has trouble getting this burned disc to be seen during the initial disc boot phase, I've found the G4/G5 factory optical drives are pretty terrible at reading burned DVDs. Once your older Mac OS X CD or DVD is in your hand, set aside some time with Disk Utility and some blank CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, or, in the case of the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. If you have an install CD from a MacBook, it may be failing because the MacBook runs the Intel version of Leopard and the PowerMac runs the PPC version. In any case, you need another copy of Leopard to install on your PowerMac, because the copy of Leopard that came with your MacBook is licensed for only one computer.
would be a start. Its serial number would be better: it is probably
printed inside the battery compartment.
The first five characters are enough to determine the manufacture date,
which should identify the model. The third character is the last digit
of the year of manufacture, the next two are the week number. For
example, the serial number of my PowerBook G4 (DVI) starts with QT221,
which indicates it was manufactured in 2002 week 21.
Your friend's PowerBook G4 is probably too new to be supported by your
'universal' 9.2 boot disc. The last few generations of Macs which could
boot Mac OS 9 require a model-specific 9.2.2 disc which came with the
computer.
Looking through MacTracker, only the original PowerBook G4 (Jan 2001 to
Oct 2001) would be old enough to boot from 9.2. The Gigabit Ethernet
model (Oct 2001) requires 9.2.1. All later Titanimum models (Apr 2002 or
later) require 9.2.2, probably model-specific. Aluminium models can't
boot Mac OS 9 at all, only use it via the Classic environment from Mac
OS X 10.0 through 10.4.
There is a small possibility that Apple can still sell replacement
install media for the computer, given its serial number. I don't know
whether they still do that for models outside the five to seven year
hardware support window.
Failing that, you may need to find someone who has the same model and
give you a copy of their disc, or use Mac OS X.
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David Empson
dem..@actrix.gen.nz
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