I had 10.5 running on an old eMac. Ran pretty well too, for web surfing and the like.
If you have 2 Macs a good way to go is to start the victim in Firewire Target mode, holding down the "t" at startup (or is it command-t?) On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:46 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 06/03/2010 10:40 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> You can run a G4 under 10.5??? >> > > YES! > >> Bob >> >> >> On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Richmond wrote: >> >> >>> Dear RunRev users, >>> My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped >>> functioning. Managed to boot it in Mac OS9 and am now backing up >>> all my data onto a Maxell 'Tank' (1.5 TB) before blanking the 4 ATA >>> disks and starting from scratch. Most of the partitions won't mount under >>> 10.3 / .4 / .5 and disk tools says they are incapable of being repaired; >>> which >>> is gae queer as they mount under '9'. >>> >>> Gosh; backing up over a USB connexion is glacial . . . :( >>> >>> And here I am writing "love letters" on a Pentium 2 with 32 MB RAM >>> running Damn Small Linux! >>> >>> The only reason I can think of as to why the machine went wonky is that I >>> tried to get the L2 cache working with 10.5: anybody else with ideas in this >>> direction? >>> >>> So; rest easy; no major burbles will be forthcoming from my direction for >>> at least a week. >>> >>> sincerely, Richmond. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-revolution mailing list >>> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution