khanix Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hi! I have an iBook G4 which I wanted to upgrade from tiger to leopard. I used a pirated copy of leopard, which apparently was corrupted so the whole process sorta crashed 33% into the install. This left me with only parts of the os installed (or the rest of the old one, I don't know). The problem is that I'm having a hard time getting anything done to this computer. I've burned another copy of leopard (the first one was not burned by me), both as a dual layer and a single layer DVD, but they refuse to boot. I read in the thread about fitting leopard on a single layer dvd, that leopard can screw up the burning, which is really unfortunate since all my other macs have leopard. I decided to try something different than leopard and downloaded a copy of Panther, which shows up in the boot menu, but when I proceed it just shows a forbidden sign (like ø) on the screen. Does anybody know what this means? Does anyone have any suggestions to what I should do? Any hints would be great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I decided to try something different than leopard and downloaded a copy of Panther, which shows up in the boot menu, but when I proceed it just shows a forbidden sign (like ø) on the screen. Does anybody know what this means? I think that means the version of Panther that you have is a restore disk for another computer model. It checks and won't let you install on your iBook. I suggest restoring your machine with your Tiger restore disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopeyo Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 it might also mean that panther is older than tiger, so it won't down-grade. I have tried to reduce Leopard to a single-layer DVD, it never worked. So I'm just okay with Tiger. Others here have put Leopard on a 800 Mh G4 and the CPU was just too slow. Stick with Tiger 10.4.11, it just works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hi! I have an iBook G4 which I wanted to upgrade from tiger to leopard. I used a pirated copy of leopard, which apparently was corrupted so the whole process sorta crashed 33% into the install. This left me with only parts of the os installed (or the rest of the old one, I don't know). The problem is that I'm having a hard time getting anything done to this computer. I've burned another copy of leopard (the first one was not burned by me), both as a dual layer and a single layer DVD, but they refuse to boot. I read in the thread about fitting leopard on a single layer dvd, that leopard can screw up the burning, which is really unfortunate since all my other macs have leopard. I decided to try something different than leopard and downloaded a copy of Panther, which shows up in the boot menu, but when I proceed it just shows a forbidden sign (like ø) on the screen. Does anybody know what this means? Does anyone have any suggestions to what I should do? Any hints would be great Well, I'm sorry to say, but you're pretty screwed in this scenario. And you can't use a DL DVD in a SL drive. Best idea is to backup via firewire and then cleanly install Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 it might also mean that panther is older than tiger, so it won't down-grade. I have tried to reduce Leopard to a single-layer DVD, it never worked. So I'm just okay with Tiger. Others here have put Leopard on a 800 Mh G4 and the CPU was just too slow. Stick with Tiger 10.4.11, it just works. Leopard is great on my 800MHz iMac G4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coda Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Leopard is great on my 800MHz iMac G4 It's also pretty fine on my wife's 800Mhz iBook G4. And that thing has only 256Mb Ram! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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