Re: iMac G5, need to install OS, limited options

2013-03-11 Thread Jason Johnson
Find another Mac like iMac, pay 5 dollars for a new FireWire cable and use the other Mac as a disk drive to install onto the G5. If you have an old laptop drive slot load you can replace that drive also. Sent from far far away On Mar 4, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Philip Christiansen

Re: iMac G5, need to install OS, limited options

2013-03-11 Thread Jason Johnson
But his heading says g5 so no GUId needed. Sent from far far away On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Mar 5, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: 3) Select One Partition from the dropdown for partition number,

Re: iMac G5, need to install OS, limited options

2013-03-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Philip Christiansen wrote: I just acquired a G5 iMac yesterday. As a long time Mac user, I was looking forward to tinkering around with it. However, there is no OS installed and the DVD drive is shoddy, so I am being a little fiddly with my solutions. A few

Re: iMac G5, need to install OS, limited options

2013-03-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 5, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: 3) Select One Partition from the dropdown for partition number, then click on the Options button. Select 'Apple Partition Map'. continue with the repartitioning and formatting, it doesn't matter what it's called,

iMac G5, need to install OS, limited options

2013-03-04 Thread Philip Christiansen
I just acquired a G5 iMac yesterday. As a long time Mac user, I was looking forward to tinkering around with it. However, there is no OS installed and the DVD drive is shoddy, so I am being a little fiddly with my solutions. A few facts first: 1.) I don't have a firewire cable. I can't