kittierocks Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 sooo i just found out that my ibook can not boot DVD Dl dvds and their the only dvds that can hold leopard son i was wondering if there is a way to shrink leopard for powerpcs not intel! thnxz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeeky Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 hackintosh people have been doing that for years, but i don't know how, or you can copy it to a thumb drive or an ipod with carbon copy cloner then boot off that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveWasTaken Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 You create a new disk image from the DVD (rip it to a DMG), and remove all un-necessary components such as printer drivers, xcode and X11. This brings the size of the image down to around 4GB. This can then be burned to a DVD and used normally. I had to do it for the same reason. If you need the extras, just copy them onto a flash drive and sort that post install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmonkey Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 I had to do this for my 12" Powerbook G4, there's a guide here: http://www.canhesaythat.com/?p=75 Much easier though, if you have access to another Mac, is to start the one you want to install Leopard to in firewire target disk mode (hold down "T" after the chime, it will start up with a bouncing firewire icon, then connect it with a 6 pin to 6 pin FW400 cable to the other Mac) and install from the other machine. Just choose the hard disk on the target Mac when asked where to install Leopard. We used to do this on quicksilver dual G4s that didnt quite come up to the 867MHz processor speed requirement of Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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