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Hi Team, I am having an issue.
I have an old 17inch G5 non camera.
I just want a clean install of Leopard on it. However my retail lepoard results in a panic it just says could not load drive for this version 8.1 (Or something simlar)
I tried to install 10.4 disk as well, although admitadly from my old imac not this one, and again the same panic.
It only leaves me with one choice and thats 10.3 which came with the mac. And yes I cannot find that disk anywhere!

I see you have other Macs. You might be able to bypass the G5's optical drive, if that's the problem, using Target Disk Mode to install the Leopard.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
This is an article about installing Tiger using TDM, but I would think the principle would be the same.
http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/osx_odyssey_752_how_to_installing_tiger_using_firewire_target_diskmode/

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