Then there were none. Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Well, ive found the mac im going to buy and its a good deal but it comes with tiger installed, and I want leo on it. Im stretching my finances to buy it and was wondering if you could use a leopard upgrade DVD to perform a clean install, because I dont have 80 Quid to spend on a retail leo DVD. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79967-leopard-upgrade-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartNijland Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Heard some things that upgrading from Tiger to Leopard could make your mac really slow. Happend to me with my Hackintosh Removing everything and a full and clean install of Leopard is always the best way, but you can try it, because I heard it could make your mac really slow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79967-leopard-upgrade-dvd/#findComment-566601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 lol BartNijland, I don't think that's what he meant. Revolution, I think you want to take a look at this link. It details the process on converting an upgrade DVD into a Retail DVD, and it looks pretty legal to me... There's also a claus in there about how the Leopard upgrade disk requires an installation of MacOS 10.4 on your Mac. So if the upgrade is coming to you free of charge, keep it, pick up a single Dual-Layer DVD, and make some magic! If you're paying for it and it's significantly less, do this as well. Otherwise, forget it and buy/obtain Leopard retail. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79967-leopard-upgrade-dvd/#findComment-566869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Then there were none. Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 thanks, they are considerably cheaper, as the retail dvd's are 85 and the upgrades are like 10 pounds. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79967-leopard-upgrade-dvd/#findComment-566895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verendus Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 No need to convert the upgrade DVD if you have another MAC. You can use terminal within a working MAC or Hackintosh to run osinstall.mpkg to run a clean install onto another HD attached via USB or Firewire, then transfer the HD to a new computer. I am typing from a leopard installed from an upgrade DVD on a newly built hackintosh with EFI-8. Complete vanilla... :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79967-leopard-upgrade-dvd/#findComment-576846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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