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Iam trying to install osx 10.5 my mac g5 but when i insert the mac cd the apple log on come out and after that a grey screen come out and you can only hear the cd running
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Your not going to be able to but if you close the laptop lid and plug the computer into the G5 you might be able to install the OS from the G5 to the laptop. Make sure to do a full install.
Start from your Mac OS X Install disc: Insert the installation disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important:
Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do,
you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
Click the First Aid tab.
Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
Select your Mac OS X volume.
Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.
G5 will not boot off of OS9. Since you are more of a pc guy, think of it like this, you buy a used newer pc meant to run Vista, and you are trying to load Windows 98 on there. You can run any of the OSX flavors on there...
Depending on your Model (scroll to bottom) of G5 you need to be running...
2003 -> at least 10.2 Jaguar
2004 -> at least 10.3 Panther
2005 -> at least 10.4 Tiger
10.5 Leopard is Apple's newest operating system and it can be run on any of these models. You need to buy a retail copy (has drivers for every model) unless you buy exactly the right system disk for that specific model.
OS9 can be installed and run inside of OSX using something called Classic mode. This would be like running a virtual XP Pro inside of Vista.
try holding down the alt(option) key when starting up it should give you a list of startup options, it sounds like you dont have a astartup disk (an operating system) installed.
1) remove all external , leaving only keyboard anf mouse. 2) turn power on and press and leave mouse depress until any cd are out from cd bay Main boadr is ok but system canot be loaded due to a corrupted os x load
if u have original cd please insert
1) remove power cord to De-enegize system 2) plug power cord back and press power buttom insert Mac Osx Labeled Install CD ,Press Comand-C to boot from CD
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