G4 iBook and Leopard?

hey folks
I have G4 iBook and would like to install Leopard. NOt at my machine right now, but I believe I have 1 or 1.25 GB of RAM and enough HD space.
Your thoughts and recs. are very appreciated.
Chuck S

here are the stats on my machine
iBook G4
currently running 10.4.11
1.42 GHZ POwer PC G4
1 GB DDR SDRAM
What does anyone think about installing Leopard on my machine.
Thanks
C Silverman

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See:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
Long answer: Yes, but not the 'official' way. There are unsupported methods of installing Leopard on unsupported machines. One is by using FireWire Target Disk mode. Do you have access to any other PPC Macs that are compatible with Leopard?
This link has some information about unsupported installations and one method by 'hacking' the install DVD:
http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/unsupported.html
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sadly BootCamp does indeed not support the installation of Windows on external harddisks.
Mostly because Windows itself (courtesy of Microsoft) does not support this either.
There is one how-to, that claims to let you install Windows on an external harddisk, see here: http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-dr ive/
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And at last you can cleaar-up your external HD of everything you don't want/need anymore.
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I have recently bought an iPod 5th Generation and I'm very happy with it !! My question is.
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