I cannot install Leopard 10.5 onto my PowerMac G5 (dual processor)

I have a new retail full install DVD of Leopard 10.5 and cannot install it to my PowerMac G5 (dual processor). I bought a new disc, thinking it was the original. Nothing! I bought a new SATA 1tb hard drive... Nothing! I have reformatted until I can refomat no more. I have tried to "Safe Boot", holding down C, Option, Shift, etc... Can someone tell me what to do?

Hmmm, with the Leopard Install Disc in use Disk Utility to Verify the DVD, does that come out OK?
If so ...
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
   2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
      *Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
   3. Click the Erase tab.
   4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
   5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
   6. Highlight the drive, select Partition Tab, then Format type... MacOS Extended Journalled, select the Security Options button, choose Zero Out Data, Erase... after completion hopefully you'll be able to install.

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I have an Intel Macbook (2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD) with OS 10.4.11 installed, and am trying to upgrade to 10.5 with a retail version of Leopard. However, when I attempt to boot from the install disc (which I can successfully do), I cannot install Leopard because of an error message that it "cannot be installed on this machine."
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pixelinpink wrote:
I have an Intel Macbook (2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD) with OS 10.4.11 installed, and am trying to upgrade to 10.5 with a retail version of Leopard. However, when I attempt to boot from the install disc (which I can successfully do), I cannot install Leopard because of an error message that it "cannot be installed on this machine."
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I recently bought a macbook off ebay due to my ibook dying and not being good enough to run leopard anyway (67MHz off!), eventually got it and I can't install leopard on it! This makes no sense to me as its a core 2 duo 2ghz 2gb ram, definately high enough spec! I put the Leopard Disc in (it's not the retail one but it says "For Mac Computers") and it boots to it, gets to the first screen asking to choose the language, so I pick English...then it has a think...then it says "Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer". What's that about? I can install ubuntu on it easily, I can even put XP on it easily but it won't have leopard! Anyone got any ideas?

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so i am currently building a PowerMac G4 (graphite) Dual 450mhz with 1gb RAM for a friend. when i bought this originally, it came with a 30.7gb hard drive running OS9...computer boots fine when that hard drive is connected.
but when i connect a 60gb hard drive that i formatted using my time machine backup (running OSX leopard 10.5.6) it wont recognize the drive and run. which is odd because just before building this one, i built the SAME exact model but when i bought it the hdd was running 10.4 so upgrading using time machine and my install disc was a cinch.
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mahem4DUB wrote:
so i am currently building a PowerMac G4 (graphite) Dual 450mhz
A Dual450MHz is not supported for a Leopard install. You need 867MHz or higher to run it the way it was meant to be.
but when i connect a 60gb hard drive that i formatted using my time machine backup (running OSX leopard 10.5.6) it wont recognize the drive and run.
What machine is it a backup of? It has to be exactly the same build date G4 for any hope of operation. Your specs. say you have a Quicksilver. It doesn't have the correct drivers for a G4 Gigabit (you say graphite, but I believe the Dual 450MHz was a Gigabit Ethernet....I have one).
Also, Time Machine backups are not bootable. I believe, though am no expert on Time Machine, one must install the OS from the disk, then backup from Time Machine.
And the Gigabit can't run Leopard unless you upgrade the processor. Some have tried but operation has been unsatisfactory for most. You would have to install thru Target Disk Mode, off an install disk, using a Mac that meets Leopards specs.
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Hi, I recently purchased a macbook pro. It works perfect, but I just want to re-install leopard however it doesn't let me do it.
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Believing that the knowledge gained by these tedious exercises in troubleshooting should be shared and added to the public record, the following should be noted.
Clearly, either the problem G4 MDD has a problem, or the CD/DVD drive in the G4 MDD has a problem with installing Mac OS 10.5. A gambler would bet on the CD/DVD drive having some issue and not the Mac G4.
It is noteworthy that the CD/DVD drive in question has successfully read and burned CD's and verified the Mac OS 10.5 Install DVD without error, hence, in all of those actions, indicated no error or problems at all, yet, appears to be the problem. Perhaps INSTALL of Mac OS 10.5 raises some issue with the CD/DVD drive that the other successful actions (reading and burning of CD's) does not raise. I have no other reasonable explanation.
My complimentary Apple Care for my purchase of a family pack Leopard 10.5 treatment was that since I was not installing 10.5 on my "main drive" any help was outside my Apple Care coverage. (The subject drive was on the Master position of the fastest ATA cable, and to my non-technical, dumb lawyer approach to things, was the "Main Drive.)
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