Leopard DVD problem

Hi All,
I just received my purchased copy of Leopard in the mail the other day. When I put the installation DVD into my superdrive it doesn't mount it and spits it out after a few minutes. I know it isn't the drive since I was able to successfully mount one of my backup DVDs.
Does anyone have any ideas of how to alleviate this problem?
I appreciate your help in advance.
Thanks!
--Nick

A friend bought a family pack and copied Leopard to a DVD for me. I can put the DVD in the drive, and it reads it, displays the Leopard install stuff; I can read the instructions and so forth. But if I click install, during the reboot, it ejects the dvd.
To try and narrow down the problem, I put in the leopard dvd, rebooted with option-v, and it ejects the dvd before displaying any boot messages. Actually, before turning on the monitor. So it appears to be happening at the PROM level, before the OS loads. The dvd is a 8.5gb DVD+R DL RW. I have a mac mini, the drive is a MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8124. Anybody have any ideas for me to try?
Thanks,
Rob

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So I just installed a new hard drive in my ibook G4. At first I started up the computer using the leopard DVD I had purchased. Got to Disk Utility and after a few seconds in the spin wheel came up and froze. So, I shut the computer down and when I tried to boot it again from the DVD I wouldn´t even reach the apple screen. Tried it a few times unsuccessfully.
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I am currently at the installer page but I am concern about installing the old CD as I really would like to run the leopard dvd 10.5.
Is it that my ibook g4 can´t be booted from leopard dvd?
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OK, so I decided to leave my computer resting all night and give it a new try this morning.
This morning I was able to boot from the Leopard DVD, so I don´t really think it is a problem with my superdrive. Started to format at 32 minutes to complete. Then towards the 10th minute the spinning wheel appeared, I heard the fan running, then it stopped and then I heard the superdrive making some reading noises. Then all noises stopped and now the spinning wheel continues..not sure what to do now.
In the meantime, I wanted to share also another problem that I´ve been having for quite some time which I don´t know if it is related to my current problem. It is with the computer power:
- I´ve been experiecing load surges that take my computer from 100% to 1 or 0% and then goes to sleep or shuts down. The same thing happens when I am charging the computer.. it starts charging and showing 2 or 3% charge and then jacks up to 100% in minutes.
- My computer also makes like a slight humming noise sometimes when the ring around the power cable is in orange color, so I move it around until it stops. When I do that sometimes it goes from orange to green eventhough it is not fully charged. There has been times that under green it appears to be charging (battery charging icon on desktop shows up), and other sometimes like right now when it is in green color and the battery icon on the desktop says ´99%´. Weird enough, once I get the cable in a certain position it enables the battery to charge, if I keep it without moving it, the load surges disappear (at least for some days).
Should I try resetting the PMU? I´ve not done it because I don´t know what consequences it may have.
NOTE: When I bought the computer I never calibrated my battery because I was (and still are) clueless when comes to computer technicalities. I tried using a different power adapter and get the sample problem.
Below is the information I get from coconut battery:
My battery is in its 256 load-cycle. current battery capacity 58512mAh (original battery capacity: 4400 mAh).
The last system profiler I was able to pull shows:
Battery Information:
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 58320
Charging: No
Full charge capacity (mAh): 58512
Health Information:
Cycle count: 256
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): 0
Voltage (mV): 16250
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 15
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 15
Dynamic Power Step: Yes
Reduce Processor Speed: No
Automatic Restart On Power Loss: No
Wake On AC Change: No
Wake On Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake On LAN: Yes
Wake On Modem Ring: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 5
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 5
Dynamic Power Step: No
Reduce Processor Speed: Yes
Automatic Restart On Power Loss: No
Wake On AC Change: No
Wake On Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake On Modem Ring: No
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Reduce Brightness: Yes
Hardware Configuration:
Clamshell Closed: No
UPS Installed: No
AC Charger Information:
AC Charger (Watts): 26
Connected: Yes
Charging: No
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch!!!

Problem in Formatting using Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD (FULL)

Hi all
I've just bought a Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD -Full- (not upgrade)
When I boot from the installation DVD nd then
after few minutes the screen turns to black nd I can't do anything!! (MacBook Pro 2009)
I tried using my iMac nd the installation DVD works smooth nd fine!
I don't know why MBP is not processing the installation steps nd the screen suddenly turns to black!
Waiting ...
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Make sure your MacBook pro is not too new for the disk in question.
Find the serial number for the MacBook Pro, and look at the three characters labelled ABC below, and tell us the numbers they are represented by:
xxABCxxxx
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Then tell us the 10.6 version labelled in fine print on the DVD.
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Message was edited by: a brody

Restoring Leopard DVD to a disc

I'm not asking for advice but leaving some of my experiences installing Leopard to the small % of people who may benefit.
I've completed around 50 Leopard installs on my Mac Pro. This is my hobby, to learn. Every install has gone fine, just the normal left over Leopard bugs which will be fixed in up coming releases. Just like Jaquar, Panther and Tiger was fixed.
This was my usual plan: take the Leopard DVD then use the restore function in Leopard's Disk Utility to copy that DVD either to a partition on an external firewire hard drive or an internal hard drive on my Mac Pro. Reason for this was to speed up the installation time.
The past few days I have been smitten with many unusual problems on my Mac Pro after installing Leopard from one of the partitions never the DVD. Its odd because many of the problems have been similar ones which I have read but could not reproduce in these discussion posts.
I've spent many hours trying to figure out the cause of my install problem. I examined my normal scenario which was : 1) always use Leopard's Disk Utility to partition or erase any of my hard drives 2) boot into a previously INSTALLED Leopard system before doing the DVD restore to hard drive.
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6) short name was being used when it should not have
I did not explore this further for other types of problems because I got sick of the ones I experienced.
Now when I do a Leopard install, I check two things before installing any other software and wasting time: 1) open Mail and on the first window is the proper name shown or is it the short name and 2) once I install iWork '08 to check Pages. Open preference and under General preferences check if the Author is the proper name or the short name. If Mail and Pages fail then I would start over. I did a few full program installs and the ownership issue does not go away.
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One last piece of information: I finally tried the restore to firewire partition of the Leopard DVD partitioned to APM from my powerbook G4. It doess boot and install properly on PPC and Intel Macs.
Hopefully a few of you will benefit from my experience and settle into a love affair with Leopard.

Oh forgot two other symptoms of the no good restore install;
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Hi there,
I changed my HD in my MacBook Pro to a bigger one and then wanted to Restore the System via Time Machine onto that new HD. Sadly I dont have the Snow Leopard DVD that was coming with the MacBook. Though I have another Snow Leopard DVD, that I purchased earlier for my older Mac. Now the Problem:
When I try to Boot the Macbook Pro from the older Snow Leopard DVD it always freezes and says: "You have to restart your Macbook. Press the power button until it switches off and then press the button again". But iwill not boot from the DVD.
Is there another possibility to Restore my System from my Time Machine Backup to the new HD?
Kind Regards
Lounginbob

lounginBob wrote:
Though I have another Snow Leopard DVD, that I purchased earlier for my older Mac.
You can't use a machine specific OS X install disk with another model of Mac.
It has to do with hardware drivers being on one disk and not applicable to another machine, why you get the kernel panic.
Is there another possibility to Restore my System from my Time Machine Backup to the new HD?
No. You need the OS X install disk.
Choices depending on what your machine is:
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2: If your machine originally came with 10.6.2 or earlier, you can choose to buy the 10.6.3 retail disk from Apple online, however it contains no free iLife. It comes faster.
3: If your machine originally came with 10.0 - 10.6.2, and you want the free iLife, then order the machine specific versions from Apple, however it might take longer.
4: If your machine originally came with 10.5, and your now on 10.6.x via the 10.6.3 retail disk, you can extract the free iLife from the 10.5 disks using Pacifist from CharlesSoft if you don't want to buy iLife.
You will need this disk regardless in case you need to #18 Reinstall Just OS X or #20 Erase and Install OS X or perform #4-#6 repair proceedures:
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Is there another possibility...
Yes, once you have gotten a new OS X install disk, consider making bootable clones.
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I installed 10.6.8 through Live Update, now Snow Leopard doesn't start at all! And I don't even have my Leopard DVD here! What should I do?

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... tried a procedure of renaming the kernel found on the net ...
If you've been doing things like that, you probably destroyed your system. You need the installation disc that came with the machine. Another one won't work, unless it's for the same model.
I'm really angry about this, got this Macbook since less than one year and it crashes after an autoupdate ...
It failed to boot because of incompatible third-party system modifications that you installed. We know that, because it started in safe mode. Then, instead of removing the modifications, which would have solved your problem, you did something that immobilized the machine completely. You should not have updated the OS without having an installation disc available, and you shouldn't be using a computer at all without backups. Apple can't protect you from the consequences of making bad choices.

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A very interesting NOTE to this thread. In order to try and get the "ignore permissions" box to show up in GET INFO (so I could execute Matt the Magician's solution to file sharing issues)-- I ran the terminal command for disabling ACLs on my internal HD / start up disk (as indicated in the linked thread to BDAqua's forum).
Although I understand that this was useless for disabling permissions on the start up disk (as everyone here pointed out) and allowing me to see the "ignore permissions" check box - somehow it did seem to fix my file sharing problem...and that was the root problem I wanted solved in the first place! After doing the terminal command and a quick reboot, I went in and tested file sharing on the chosen directory and I can create new files or work from existing files in the directory, with both users being able to modify / and save from both machines and each machine sees the revisions and can build from them. Bottom line - I'm stoked and want to thank everyone for their help.
The only other tweak I made was going over to my wife's machine and instead of using her log in / password, I just used my name and password to connect to my main machine that was sharing directories. Maybe that's what fixed the problem or the ACL disable but either way...I'm up and running the way I want to be.
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Backing up Leopard DVD

I made a backup of the Leopard DVD to install several machines (yes I bought the family pack) and discovered that using a Macintosh to make the copy didn't copy the Bootcamp information.
Moral: if you make a backup (and you should) of the Leopard distribution medium you need to make TWO backups, one of which as far as I can tell needs to be made with a Windows machine so you'll have the Boot Camp 2.0 drivers.
There's probably a better way to go about it than the above but one way or another beware...

Jeff Geerling wrote:
2. Click on "Mac OS X Install DVD" (the bottom level).
That is your problem. Counterintuitive as it may seem, select the *DVD drive*, not the "Mac OS X Install DVD" volume below it.
Explanation: the "DVD/CD Master" image format creates bit-for-bit images of whatever you tell it to, but if you tell it to image a volume on a drive, that is all it will image. The Leopard DVD actually has quite a bit more on it than the "Mac OS X Install DVD" volume, including a Driver Descriptor Map, the Bootcamp code, the Apple Partition Map, and (aha!) "AppleDriverATAPI." You need all this to create a clone of the disk that will boot both PPC & Intel Macs. It is about 7.5 GB worth of stuff, only about 7.1 GB of which is in the visible partition (the volume "Mac OS X Install DVD").
BTW, steps 5 through 7 can be simplified: Just select the newly created .cdr file in the D.U. list, click the "Burn" icon & D.U. will helpfully eject the Leopard DVD disk & ask you to insert a DVD blank.
Also, in step 4, name the image whatever you like -- it is an image file & the name of the volume is in there along with everything else. I use something not likely to be confused with anything else, like "Leopard Retail Disk v 10.5.0."
Finally, if you don't know what blanks your drive will burn to, use the handy link at the bottom on the right of D.U.'s window when the DVD drive is selected. It will open System Profiler to the appropriate section, where you will probably find that "+R DL" is listed in the "Write Strategies:" section but "-R DL" is not.

BRAND NEW Mac Pro won't boot from Leopard DVD, kernel panics!

I just received my brand new Mac Pro today. It's a BTO machine with the upgrade to the NVIDIA 8800GT, a second optical drive and a Mac OS X Server license. The system has Mac OS X server installed on the default 320GB drive. I decided to use the server license as a virtual machine running in Leopard client. So, I installed 2 new 500GB Seagate 7200.11 (Retail) drives in the machine, zeroed them out in prep for installing Leopard client.
At this point, I pop in a freshly-purchased retail copy of the Leopard DVD and restart. When I try to boot from the DVD and install Leopard to one of the new Seagate drives, I get kernel panics - need to restart the machine. Also tried booting from the Mac OS X Server DVD and this too only caused kernel panics. The DVD's read perfectly from within Mac OS X Server and boot from hard disks is flawless.
I spent an hour on the phone with a level 2 tech at Apple - Tried swapping out the RAM and moving around the DIMMS to no avail. I am at a loss to what this could be. Seems to be a hardware issue and the tech thought it was likely a problem with one of the memory risers but couldn't send replacements. Anyone else with a similar issue?
This is my first Mac and it looks like this Mac Pro is going back for an exchange and I'll have to wait yet another 10-12 days for a replacement to arrive. Bummer.
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After many failed dual-layer DVD-R and DVD+R burns (and a few single-layer DVD-Rs), I've come to the conclusion that Apple has made backing up a Leopard DVD impossibly hard.
I bought the family pack for myself and a few other guys in the same household (a dormitory), and I want to make a couple copies for them so we can each have an install DVD. I thought to myself, "Why not just try the same way you made backup copies of every other Leopard DVD?" So I did the following:
1. Open Disk Utility.
2. Click on "Mac OS X Install DVD" (the bottom level).
3. Click "Create New Image."
4. Name the file "Mac OS X Install DVD" with "DVD/CD Master" and "None" for Encryption, saving the file to the Desktop.
5. Eject Leopard DVD
6. Insert blank DL DVD-R (or +R, I tried both).
7. Click on the "Mac OS X Install DVD" image I just created.
8. Click Burn and burn the disc.
I've done this method, and also have tried a few other variations (such as making an image that's 8 GB with an Apple Partition Map, then Restoring the Leopard DVD to it, then burning that image... also, doing similar things but changing options here and there, even using Carbon Copy Cloner).
No matter what I've done, I can't get a bootable copy. And some of the copies won't even show up in the Finder (they just sit in the drive spinning until I restart the Mac with the mouse button down to eject the DVD).
Is there any possible way to create a DVD copy of Leopard? I know it may be possible to make a bootable FireWire partition, but I'd rather have the DVD for archival's sake.

Jeff Geerling wrote:
2. Click on "Mac OS X Install DVD" (the bottom level).
That is your problem. Counterintuitive as it may seem, select the *DVD drive*, not the "Mac OS X Install DVD" volume below it.
Explanation: the "DVD/CD Master" image format creates bit-for-bit images of whatever you tell it to, but if you tell it to image a volume on a drive, that is all it will image. The Leopard DVD actually has quite a bit more on it than the "Mac OS X Install DVD" volume, including a Driver Descriptor Map, the Bootcamp code, the Apple Partition Map, and (aha!) "AppleDriverATAPI." You need all this to create a clone of the disk that will boot both PPC & Intel Macs. It is about 7.5 GB worth of stuff, only about 7.1 GB of which is in the visible partition (the volume "Mac OS X Install DVD").
BTW, steps 5 through 7 can be simplified: Just select the newly created .cdr file in the D.U. list, click the "Burn" icon & D.U. will helpfully eject the Leopard DVD disk & ask you to insert a DVD blank.
Also, in step 4, name the image whatever you like -- it is an image file & the name of the volume is in there along with everything else. I use something not likely to be confused with anything else, like "Leopard Retail Disk v 10.5.0."
Finally, if you don't know what blanks your drive will burn to, use the handy link at the bottom on the right of D.U.'s window when the DVD drive is selected. It will open System Profiler to the appropriate section, where you will probably find that "+R DL" is listed in the "Write Strategies:" section but "-R DL" is not.

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From what I gathered, it seems Apple forgot an important piece of information when instructing users to insert their Leopard DVD into Windows XP to update the Boot Camp drivers. This is from an Apple Support page:
"If Mediafour's MacDrive is installed in Microsoft Windows, you may be unable to mount the dual-format Leopard DVD (which includes Apple Boot Camp drivers) to upgrade Apple drivers from Boot Camp Beta to Leopard."
So a third party utility (Mediafour) needs to be installed under Windows first before Windows is able to read the Leopard DVD to access the Boot Camp update drivers?
Why can't they just provide a download?
What a copout. Nowhere is this mentioned on the DVD. I had to find it buried in some Support page.

No. What this is saying is that the DVD is dual format. If you insert it while running Windows without MacDrive it will mount and allow you to install the Boot Camp drivers. If you have MacDrive installed you may have a problem mounting the Windows partition and not be able to install the Boot Camp drivers. You need to disable MacDrive.

My Leopard DVD is damaged

Hi,
My first language is spanish, so please excuse any grammar mistakes.
I've bought a Macbook White on April/2008, and it came with 2 Discs of "Mac OSX Install". and a DVD of "Mac OS X Leopard", but for some reason my Leopard DVD is damaged and doesn't let me start the installation. So, I'm in a big problem. I have Tiger right now but I need to install some applications that need a Mac Osx 10.5+ and that is not my case.
How can I get a copy of MY Leopard DVD? I've search on your support site and the only suggestion I've found is to purchase the DVD again. I DO NOT want to purchase my OWN dvd AGAIN, since when I bought my macbook I also bought the licence of my OSx, and I think it's no fair to pay for MY OWN LICENCE TWICE. Do you have any other suggestion for my problem?

Might be related, if your hard drive is a 1TB drive,it could be a Seagate drive.
The drives are known to fail and your iMac maybe covered for free replacement under the Apple's Seagate hard drive replacement program until April 12 of this year.
I Believe the 2009 models are covered under this replacement warranty.
You can find out if you are eligible here.
http://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive/
Good Luck!

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