Can't upgrade to 10.5 - Help?
I got the Leopard Family Pack and it installed fine on my macbook. I just can't get it to install onto my G5 PowerPC running 10.3.9 (2.5 gb ram, 200 gb hd). My hard drive is striped.
I've used the disk utility multiple times and I still get this error message:
"Install Failed
Max OS X could not be installed on your computer. Installer cannot prepare the volume for installation...run disk utility"
I've done all firmware and software updates.
Any idea what I should try next? Thanks a lot.
Probably a daft question but have you ran disk utility
Disk Utility
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
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