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G4 installing leopard - 2009/06/28 18:10I have a G4 power mac and want to install leopard. The model number is M7824LL/B. I don't think that leopard would originally be able to be installed on this computer. But the processor has been upgraded to a 1 GHz processor I have 2 GB of RAM and more than enough hard drive space to install the program. But when I go to install it sais that leopard can not be installed on this computer. I am just wondering if anyone can tell me why this is and has any ideas on how I could install the program. Any info anyone has would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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krowmagnum
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Re:G4 installing leopard - 2009/06/29 05:47The Leopard installer is looking at the machine ID to determine if it's compatible not the CPU. Since your machine ID says it's an early AGP G4 the installer stops.
No problem though, you can use an app called LeopardAssist to install Leo on your G4. Or use a "supported" PPC Mac to install Leo via firewire Target Disk Mode, or place your hard drive in a supported Mac to do the install and put it back in your Mac after the OS is installed on the drive.
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Re:G4 installing leopard - 2009/06/29 16:55Do as krowmagnum suggests but do find it odd as ran Leopard on a 1.4GHz CPU upgrade no problems at all and the machine a Gigabit Ethernet, presented no problems.
One question you are using the full retail install DVD and not a disk that came with a computer as they have blockers inbuilt to prevent loading on to other models?
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