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Upgraded dual 1.4ghz G4 will not install leopard.
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I've got a Digital Audio G4 system that has been upgraded from a dual 533mhz G4 to a dual 1.4gz G4 system.
When I try to install Leopard the installers says it can not install. I'm guessing it's saying that because it still thinks its a regular Digital Audio G4 system with no cpu upgrades.
Is there a way around this?
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boot it into Target Disk Mode and hook it up to a supported machine to install.
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Originally Posted by analogika 
boot it into Target Disk Mode and hook it up to a supported machine to install.
I don't have an extra system to do that unfortunately. Any other way around it?
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Yeah, the instructions were provided here a day or two after Leopard's release.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Yeah, the instructions were provided here a day or two after Leopard's release.
Well I found this:
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/...00mhz-g4-imac/
But I'm having serious problems building xar. 
Was this what you were referring to or is there something else?
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I'm running a Digital Audio myself. Formerly a 533MHz single CPU. Upgraded specs are in signature.
I've not had any problem with Leopard.
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I like chicken
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Meow Mix, Meow Mix
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
I'm running a Digital Audio myself. Formerly a 533MHz single CPU. Upgraded specs are in signature.
I've not had any problem with Leopard.
Well that's good news. I wonder what is causing my error message. then.. so you did a normal install... no problems?
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Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams
Yup, that thread.
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Man talk about going around you ass to get to your elbow... I mounted the install disk on my Gentoo box and extracted the OSInstaller.mpkg file with xar there and modified it.
Hopefully that will solve it once I make a recovery image to modify... which I'm doing now.
Still I'm puzzled that other's systems of the same type work yet mine doesn't 
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Yeah, I don't understand why you're having issues.
My install was very straight forward; Reboot the machine with the DVD in and boot from it.
And I have a fairly complex system. In addition to what is listed in my signature, I have an Acard 6280M ATA-133 card for my two 400GB drives, an Acard 6880M RAID card for two smaller drives, and an OWC FireWire 800 card.
The only advice I can think of is to change the speed of your Dual CPU upgrade to 1.33GHz. That would be a 10x bus multiplier. Currently you're running at 10.5x and I've heard that some people are having installation issues because Leopard doesn't recognize half multiplier settings in a lot of G4s, since some G4 Power Mac families never shipped with a CPU that ran on a X.5x setting.
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Last edited by Lateralus; Nov 4, 2007 at 03:50 AM.
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Well the update now is that I've got a hacked installer running... getting past the part where it detects the architecture, but now the installer says it can't find the files needed to install the system!
Any ideas what could be causing that? I'm doing an install from a hard drive that has the 10.5 installer on it... maybe that has something to do with it?
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Last edited by Tyre MacAdmin; Nov 4, 2007 at 04:28 AM.
Reason: grammar)
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...probably.
Why would you be installing from another hard drive?
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I like chicken
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
...probably.
Why would you be installing from another hard drive?
The disk method does not seem to be working for me.
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Well it looks like it finally installed for me! After pulling out about half my hair my system is up running 10.5 via the documented work-around given on this forum. I rather not do that again... does Carbon Copy Cloner work with Leopard yet?
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My G4/400 sawttoh with GigaDesign 1.2 GHz G4 upgraded smoothly appart from that the Acard 6260 is not recognised by 10.5 so installing with IDE cards seem to be tricky...
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And the install on my upgraded QS (867 to 1.6) went just fine, with a SIIG SATA pci card installed too 
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Personally I find it hilarious that you have the hots for my gramma. Especially seeins how she is 3x your age, and makes your Brittney-Spears-wannabe 30-something wife look like a rag doll who went thru WWIII with a burning stick of dynamite up her a** :)
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