Hey guys, I have a question:
Has anyone ever tried putting Leopard on an older system by using a utility
called Leopard Assist?
A friend a mine who's name will be left unknown is dilligently! trying to
help me fix my sad and sorry Mac, that he kind a blew when trying to help me
install Leopard. Don't get the wrong Idea. I am so! not pyreting Mac O S
X. I'm not that frickin stupid. I paid the full $129 for the DVD, but I
just have no way on either my two Macs to install the bloody thing. The Mac
that Daniel gave me, that's not the first one donated to me, way back in
July, yeah, that person, again, I swear to my dying breath I won't reveal
who gave me that one!, but, anyway, this quick silver's only lacking 67MHZ!
It has 800! Now according to what my friend said the docs say in Leopard
Assist, This should! work. We've tried it though several times and it seems
to work, but then after like an hr and a half, it hangs at 99 percent on the
Leopard installer. This is a PowerMac G4 Quick Silver. I dono if it has
the mirror drive doors or not. Frankly I don't know even what that is
exactly. I can tell yall it';s gotta 40 gig hard disc, 800mhz g4, CD
writer/dvd reader combo, 512 of ram, Two IEEE Firewire ports, 2 USB2.0
ports, one Ethernet port, It did have a wifi card apparently until Daniel
took it out. No on board bluetooth, My friend really thinks this should
work if I install tiger first, which I have, then put Leopard assist on and
run it. He said then, just go through. Apparently, I've been told that on
older systems like this, it can literally speaking, take about 3 hours if
not more. But if that's the case, then what's making it hang at 99 percent.
It says progress, about a minute remaining, but then it kind a goes nowhere.
I can't just power it off and back on, as then the disk isn't bootable, and
it doesn't seem to wanna let me even select it as the startup disc. I just
wonder if anyone's had luck with this Leopard Assist, and good or bad
experience, I'd like to hear it, if you've played with it a bit. I assure
you Leopard was on here until we started doing this stuff, so, frankly, I
know that there is a back end way to do it, I just don't know how. My
friend thinks the only other way he knows that maybe! we could do it would
be with sighted help, to manually edit the firmware. I don't think I really
wanna attempt that though if I can help it. Doing that stuff really! makes
me nurvous. I'm extremely computer savvy, but I still don't wanna chance
breaking something. I can't afford a Mac that would naturally run Leopard,
so, really hacking my purchased copy is unfortunately about all I know we
really can do, unless we did the X86 version on my Dell Inspiron E1505
system, but the last time I had someone sighted try helping me with that, it
kind a, like, didn't work. I rebooted and got a black screen with a
flashing cursor in the top left corner and that, just kind a flashed
infinently. apparently my friend said to do Leopard assist I gotta have at
least 1gb a ram, but when I looked at the Leopard assist screen that guided
us, it told me that 512MB I think it said should do fine. So, yeah, if
anyone has any clue, let me know. Either that, or if you all may know
another way to trick the installer let me know. I hate to do a hackfix like
this, but I don't wanna be out $129 and stuck with media that I can't use.
Ya know? I know it'll work, as again, Daniel's brother had it on here
before Daniel brought the thing to me. So, I know! with that in mind, I
have the proof it can be done. Unfortunately, his brother won't help us.
So we're kind of at a loss.
Chris.
