drtwelvetrees Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 After much messing around trying to create a single-layerd bootable DVD of leopard. I was just about to give in, when I remembered that I had an old 20gig 1G firewire iPod. Here is what I done. 1. Using Disk Utility I formatted and partitioned iPod. 2 Partitions just under 10gigs each. 2. Using Disk Utility I restore the Leopard.dmg onto onto one of the partitions. 3. I Selected the above partition as my startup disk. 4. Leopard begun to install. 5. I then installed Leopard onto the second partition on the iPod. 6. Woo Hoo. It booted. NOTE: First time Leopard booted it hung, switching the iMac off from the mains solve that problem. Hardware : 20" iMac PPC 2.1 GHz G5, 512mb Ram. I've been using Leopard just a little bit. Supprisingly it runs quite smoothly from me old iPod. No major problems yet, but its early days. Tempted to install on my main disk and pounce on tiger. Just woundering what's the best solution, I don't have an external hard drive. I'm think "archive and install". Does this allow me to restore tiger, if leopard gets a bit catty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick taylor Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Thats pretty cool, I was think of trying leopard myself, this seems like a easy way to go about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor19 Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Neat, good to know it worked. Just a quick warning to everyone else: remember, iPods were designed to store and play media, not run a major operating system. If you're going to try and install Leopard onto your iPod, make sure it's an older one that you can spare to toy around with. The heat that will be generated inside your iPod from heavy usage isn't what the iPod was designed for, so sooner or later you'll probably fry it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Neill Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I run from an iPod, and i usually put an icepack around it. Keeps it cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimMorris Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I installed Leopard over Tiger on my last-gen PowerBook about a week ago and it's running perfectly, no notable bugs in the system itself, apart from a few third-party applications showing some UI problems (like Mactracker). Haven't been tempted to restore to Tiger yet, and I'm using it daily as my main computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunchandamovie Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Hehe, you can really do some "wear and tear" on your iPod's hard drive. I thought about doing this with Tiger, but I decided not to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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