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iMac G4 Restore Trouble
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Metro Detroit
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I have an older iMac G4 768 MB.
I bought this machine used from a friend 3 yrs ago. It had X 10.2 on it. Not realizing I did a restore but the disk bundle I had was 10.1 and this is trouble because nothing runs on 10.1. I cant even get my external hard drive to be recognized.
A friend of mine gave me 10.4 and leopard. I popped the 10.4 in and the machine freaked out and started reading all of these errors and the disk would not eject which I finally got out? Do I have to start out at 10.2 and work my way up and where do I get 10.2? No one has that. Am I screwed.
This machine is horrible on 10.1!!!
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RAHLIFE79
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what color was this 10.4 disc?
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imac g3 600
imac g4 800 superdrive
ibook 466
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The disk was grey and the leopard disc just had the new leopard logo on it.
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RAHLIFE79
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grey discs are made for specific machines, probably not the one you have, and i'll bet that is your problem. don't use it again.
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imac g3 600
imac g4 800 superdrive
ibook 466
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It said iMac on the disc. He has an iMac too?
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RAHLIFE79
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wrong imac. g4 imacs never shipped with 10.4.
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imac g3 600
imac g4 800 superdrive
ibook 466
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just to add, if your imac shipped with 10.1 (as mine did) it's probably an early model and won't run 10.5. your best bet is to pick up a retail version of 10.4 in the secondary market (ebay).
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imac g3 600
imac g4 800 superdrive
ibook 466
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chevy Chase, MD
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10.5 won't run without some messing around with the install, unless you had the 1.0/1.25GHz iMac G4 - I think. However, 10.4.11 runs great on my 700 MHz iMac.
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15" Powerbook G4 | 1.67 GHz | 2GB RAM | 10.5.1
15" iMac G4 | 700 MHz | 1GB RAM | 10.4.11
40GB iPod classic (3rd gen.), 40GB iPod classic (4th gen.), 4GB iPod nano (1st gen.)
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