Leopard Install

[54mbps]

I REALLY need some help.

 

I downloaded the leopard beta (torrent) (9a410) and It will not install on either of my computers (PPC iMac G5 and Macbook 1GB Ram) I have used toast, disk utility, bootCD and CCC, but nothing works. Every Time i try and install, it just comes up with that white screen with the white spinnin logo on it. I Think my dvd is not bootable (system prefs said it was)

 

ANY help would be greatly appreciated

 

Thanks in Advance

[Mixpower]

Dude, Leopard is for Intel Macs only.

And Leopard needs a DL DVD.

[lord_muad_dib]

leopard DOES work on PPC

[Mixpower]

leopard DOES work on PPC

Well it works better in Intel Macs anyway.

[mac-mini]

did you burn to DL DVD?

[54mbps]

I have burnt it to a DL DVD and I am also on Intel.

 

ANY other suggestions????

 

Thanks

[Zizou]

boot in verbose mode and find out what is going wrong..

 

-v :/

[Fizzeh]

If you have an external Hard drive, restore it to that via disk utility (an iPod will do...but make sure the iPod is backed up) and boot from that. This is the best, quickest, and easiest way!

[GBK.Xscape]

Well it works better in Intel Macs anyway.

how does it work "better?"

[cringemaster]

Well it works better in Intel Macs anyway.

 

Yeah, uh, how. Im really interested in how.

[t3mur]

Well.. Spinning logo? Are you sure you downloaded that BETA, or someone fooled you by uploading some animation as a leo torrent...

[NSCocoa SoftWare]

Since I am ADC user, I would recommended:

 

Internal HDD either (PCC or Intel ---> same thing!) and one External HDD w/ two partition image --->

 

One partition are used for "Restore" w/ full leopard install, other larger partition are usually

for 1st install and bunch of testing before 2nd install to your main HDD...

 

No DVD-DL or some sort till the final!

[54mbps]

Thanks

 

I will try the install via the external HD

[54mbps]

I know that this has probably been posted before but how do you install via External HD?

 

Thanks

[NSCocoa SoftWare]

I know that this has probably been posted before but how do you install via External HD?

 

Thanks

 

Ok you will want to use Disk Utility.app and "Restore" from "Source: leopard_client_9a410.dmg" for example to the "Destination: into the small partition of your External HDD".

 

Go to System Preference/Startup Disk and select the small partition of your External HDD then click restart to boot.