Installing Leopard on Custom built p.c.

I have got a custom built intel pc currently running windows vista 64 bit will i be able to installed leopard with no problems and use that instead? as i love the mac platform but cant afford a true mac myself

It is theoretically possible, but it takes a LOT of time to get working correctly, and is against the Leopard license agreement, so apple won't support you, and can even try to break your machine.
The relevant section of the SLA-I have bolded the specific phrase:
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use. This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
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Can I install Leopard on my built PC?

I recently built myself a PC, i put the specs below, i'm running XP Pro considering Vista (its a hard decision without the negative reaction to Vista), and I've seen and used the new Leopard OS and was considering that as well. Can i install this onto my computer? I know nothing about the difference's between the operating systems or what components are required ect...
System Specs:
Nforce 780i Mobo
Intel C2D 3.0 E8400 Processor
4gigs ram (XP convienently will only recognize 2.75 gigs of this purcahce, but its stated that 32bit will read up to 4 gigs)
GeForce 8600GTS 256mb GPU
250gig HDD
XP Pro Service Pack 3
Thanks! And i apologize if this question has been answered in a seperate thread already, but i couldnt find it.
-Kyle

NO. Apple software licenses specifically prohibit installing OS X on a non-Apple computer.
Barry
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Windows Install Help on custom built PC

Yesterday I had posted some problems about not being able to get past the initial screen and entering the BIOS settings after building a PC. I have successfully moved past that point and am now trying to install windows.
I have read posts and done the following:
Turned on PC with blank disc in the floppy drive. When the pc asked for me to enter a System Disc, I put Windows XP Pro into the dvd/cd drive, removed the floppy and hit ctrl-alt-del.
I get the following message
Boot from CD:
Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter.
Is there a step I am missing?
After the initial boot, I went into BIOS settings, made sure harddrive was set up properly, turned off the "other boot devices" in advanced because I was getting a Nvidia boot agent message and then tried to install windows as per the above.

Actually, it's better to put the HD as first boot, and CD as second. That way, it won't find anything on the HD (assuming it's new or has no MBR) and will boot off the cd. Once that's done and the comp resets it'll boot into windows without you having to press f11 or going into the bios to change the priorities again.

Problems installing Leopard 10.5 on eMac that has 10.3.9 installed

Hi, my sisters eMac (1Ghz, 512MB Ram, and 500 GB HDD), is unable to install Leopard. The problem is that once the machine reboots, as per the Leopard installer screen that asks you to reboot, the machine is stuck on the grey screen with the apple logo. She left it like that all night, in the hope that it would continue, but no luck.
Any thoughts, we've tried forcing it to boot to DVD by holding down the option key at restart, but that isn't doing anything either.

IF you have a repair disc run a repair disc and optimizer..sounds like you have a conflict. If you don't have a repair disc, there is one built in..do a search.Your files need a tune -up. Once you have cleaned up your hard drive and restarted. then insert the CD and follow the instructions..don't try any fancy custom installations.....You need install on a perfectly healthy hard drive.
shedone
P. S. If you can't figure out what I am talking about..reinstall your original OS this will surely clean up your hard drive...

How do I install Leopard on the partition I've created on my MacBook Pro running Lion?

I've partitioned my hard drive (running Lion) so that I can run Leopard. How do I install Leopard on the partition? I've put in the Leopard CD and restarted, but all I get is a black screen with a bunch of gibberish.

There's no way the MacBookPro will boot to Leopard.
Snow Leopard may be possible, but you'd need the original discs from Apple customer Service - the retail disc isn't a high enough version.
To check viability of Snow Leopard, have a look at a.brody's article;
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455
If it looks like SL is feasible ring the Apple Customer Services with the model and serial no. and see if the original SL discs are available.

Install Leopard on an External Drive on a Snow Leopard Mac Book Pro

Hi
I have a MBP 17/CTO 2.66GHz i7, which came installed with Snow Leopard.
I've used boot camp to install Windows 7.
I've attempted to install Leopard 10.5.4 on an external drive.
The steps I've taken:
1 - Connected my WD Passport on the Firewire Port
2 - Partitioned the drive. The first partition is 100GB, Mac OS/X Extended (journal) and I've selected the GUID Partition Scheme
3 - Inserted the Mac OS/X Leopard DVD, and followed the instructions to restart
4 - On restart I have three options. Mac OS, Windows and Install Mac OS\X
5 - I select Install Mac OS\X.
6 - The disc spins for a few moments and then the laptop freezes
Beware of the following issue:
1 - On restart more often than not, the DISC will spin and then the laptop will freeze.
2 - To overcome this, restarting pressing the ALT (option) Key.
3 - You should see your boot options. If you do not see "Install Mac OS\X", then eject and reinsert the disc.
The question maybe why would I want to have an Leopard Installation when I have Snow Leopard. The software I develop has thrown up a number of differences between Leopard and Snow Leopard, hence I need both OS's to support my software.
I mentioned this to the Apple Store before I purchased my machine. They put me through to a senior technician at Apple Care, who told me it would be possible to have the set up I am after; and to contact Apple Care if I ran into any difficulties.
After I received my laptop and ran into the problems I described above I contacted Apple Care, only to be told by a senior technician that it should be possible to install Leopard on an external drive, but Apple Care cannot provide any support or assistance.
I really do like the laptop and would much rather not return the laptop; but I really do need the setup described.
Anyway I have tried a number of different approaches:
1 - Having no partitions (so just the single partition)
2 - Trying all three Partition Schemes:
- GUILD Partition Table
- Apple Partition Map
- Master Boot Record
All resulting in the same problem.
I can confirm the external drive does appear as bootable in disc info.
My guess is one of the following is preventing the install:
1 - It is simply not possible to install an earlier version of Mac OS\X than 10.6 on the laptop I have, even if I tried to install on an external drive. This restriction is built into some hardware confirguration. So even if I wiped the internal hard drive or added a new partition to the internal hard drive, I would not be able to install 10.5.4. I say this may be a reason as the second technician told me the CPU has built into it a process which prevents installing older versions of Mac OS/X, but that it should NOT restrict installation on an external harddrive.
2 - When trying to install Mac OS/X, a search is carried out for an external drive which has the correct format. For some reason it may be that this search is not finding my external drive?
I'm a little stuck here and quite disapointed that the support promised by Apple Care for assistance in setting this up, is now not forth coming.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, as ideally I would prefer to keep and not return the laptop, it's a beautiful piece of machinery.
Cheers
Parmy

The mystery continues...
I have an older MBP (2.33 GHz Intel Core Duo) which came installed with Tiger. I can confirm I purchased a genuine copy of Leopard (10.5.4) from the Apple Store and it’s not an OEM version. I installed 10.5.4 without a hitch on my old MBP internal drive. It is the only OS installed on my old MBP.
Using my older MBP (which through software updates is now running 10.5.7), I managed to install 10.5.4 onto my external HD (WD My Passport Studio – 640GB FireWire 800).
However; on the final restart, the screen remained grey and 10.5.4 did not boot from the external drive.
I restarted the machine holding down the ALT (option) key, and only two options appeared, Macintosh HD and the Install DVD. I selected the Macintosh HD and opened System Preferences.
In System Preferences --> Startup Disk, I discovered the partition on my external HD which contains 10.5.4. I selected this partition and selected restart.
On restart my MBP displayed a grey screen, and the blue light on my hard drive flashed slowly. I left this for an hour, however; the OS did not start and the screen remained grey.
I then plugged my external HD into my new MBP which I started holding down the ALT key.
To my surprise I found 3 boot options (Macintosh HD, Windows and Leopard). Leopard being the partition on my external drive, which now has 10.5.4 installed.
I selected Leopard, but sadly after 30 minutes, the OS failed to boot.
Although this deviates slightly from this post, I fail to understand the problem here:
1 – Why can’t I boot 10.5.4 on an external drive, from my old MBP? Surely this is not because my old MBP is now running 10.5.7?
2 – Why can I see 10.5.4 as a boot option on my new MBP but not on my old MBP when I start the MBP holding down the ALT key?
I doubt there is a problem with my external drive, as it seems to read, write, etc... in all normal cases.
Whilst it definitely appears that I won’t be able to boot 10.5.4 on an external drive from my new MBP, I should be able to at least boot it from my old MBP, which would give me the option of installing Snow Leopard and Windows on the internal drive of my old MBP.
Apologies for keeping this post going, but I hope by getting to the bottom of this, it will help other Mac users as well.
I’ve run out of ideas of things to try, so I will give Apple Care another call in the morning, and will report back.
Any suggestions of other things I can try?
Cheers

How to install Leopard when disc drive is broken

Because the inbuilt CD/DVD drive has broken I use an external disk drive via USB (a LaCie d2). The Leopard install disc reads perfectly well from the LaCie drive (as you would expect) but when (at the very beginning of the install process) it prompts a Restart, the system simply restarts using the old OSX software instead of booting up from the Leopard install disc in the external LaCie drive. I guess this is because it only looks on the hard drive and the in built (now broken) CD/DVD drive. Does anyone know the best way of getting the install to work?
Thanks John

You can obtain an external hard drive with a Firewire port & clone the Leopard installer disc or restore an image of it to that drive. (Simply copying files won't work because that will not create a bootable disk.) You cannot copy
For more info on creating disk images & restoring them to other disks, see the Leopard help topic on your Mac, "*Restoring a disk or disk image to another disk*" & the topics it links to, like "*Restoring a disk image to a disk*." For more info on cloning, check out products like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!.
You cannot use your existing internal hard drive as a substitute for an external one unless you can partition it so that the clone or restored image is on a separate partition from the normal one you wish to install Leopard on (the installer cannot install the OS to the partition it is running from). While it is possible to do "live" partitioning to a drive that already contains files, it is advisable to back up the existing partition to other media first because there is always a chance that something will go wrong in the partitioning process, leaving you without those files. Since you need an external drive to best do this anyway, I don't recommend this approach.
However, since you really should have an external drive for backups whether or not you are installing the new OS, you can combine this with the installer disc clone/restored image as follows:
1. Get a nice big Firewire external drive, say 500 GB or greater. These are pretty cheap these days. You should be able to find many suitable ones in the $80 to $150 range. As an example, a search of Amazon shows over 200 entries in the less than $200 range. Many are 'combo' units with USB, Firewire, & possibly other ports like e-SATA. For future needs & maximum flexibility you may wish to consider one of those; just make sure the one you choose has a Firewire port & can boot a Mac.
2. Before putting the drive into service, use Disk Utility to partition it into two or more volumes. One of them just needs to be a bit bigger than the total capacity of the installer disc, say 10 GB. Make this the last volume of the drive & you can delete it later if you wish but you probably will want to keep it around for future installs.
3. Use the above method to create the bootable version of the installer disc on this partition, restart from it using the option key method to invoke the Startup Manager, & install the new OS on the internal drive from it.
As a side benefit, since disk drives are much faster than DVD's, the startup & installation process will be faster than from the DVD.

I have tiger (10.4.11), and I would like to upgrade to snow leopard(10.6). Do I need to install leopard(10.5) first?

Do i need to install leopard first? I was planning to but snow leopard off of amazon.

The Snow Leopard 10.6 DVD should still be available from Apple for $20. You will have to call Apple Customer Care 1-800-692-7753 or 1-800-676-2775 to purchase it. It may still be in the Legacy Products list.
If they no longer have any in stock you will have to buy it from eBay or Apple resellers that still have stock. But you will have to pay a premium since the DVDs are no longer being made. Snow Leopard DVDs are already up to $100 on Amazon.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=10.6+snow+leopard&_sacat=0&_odkw=mac+os+10.6 &_osacat=0

How to have Snow Leopard, Mavericks with built-in recovery, and Windows 7 (Bootcamp) on my iMac (Intel)?

I would like to have Snow Leopard, Mavericks with built-in recovery, and Windows 7 (Bootcamp) on my iMac (Intel). Is this possible? If so, how? Currently, I have Snow Leopard and Windows 7 (Bootcamp) running on my iMac. I have enough disk space to split my Snow Leopard partition. I have read that if I split my Snow Leopard partition, clone my Snow Leopard partition to the new partition, and boot to the new partition, that I may have problems with the Maverick's upgrade because it may not be able to create the recovery parition, or that it may erase the Windows partition, or that it may mess up the Windows boot process.

Simplest is to install Mavs on an ext HD, using FW or TB. I don't do windoze, so can't advise about the Boot Camp and multiple volumes issue. Since there's no Boot Camp, I have four volumes running SL through Mavs.

Please Help, What's the best way to un-install Leopard?

I have a new MBP 17" . I installed Leopard 2 days after I bought the machine, am having so many keyboard problems, like not being able to type and waiting around for the keyboard to start typing. It has now become very annoying and I cannot get any work done! I think I should un-install Leopard and go back to Tiger. How can I do this successfully and without losing any data. I will back up..... If any one has the answer to this it will be great. I also think that apple knows about this issue, and I think it's really bad policy on their part, not to simply say, WE ARE FIXING IT...... In-fact I think it's downright stupid of them!

What I meant with external backup is either an external hard drive or another mac where you have a copy of all your important files/applications and you should be able to use Migration Assistant with either. If you want to use MA, it will copy all the files (you can't pick and choose), so what I did was simply connect my external hard drive to the new MBP via firewire and copied over whatever I needed. Since I also keep copies of all installer .dmg's (updates or applications) on the external, I copied those over as well and then just installed my (some third party) applications and/or updates. If you don't have an external hard drive, you should also be able to connect your Powerbook and new MBP via ethernet cable and copy your files over. I used that method as well, using my internet ethernet cable (temporarily disconnected from my cable modem) and following the directions under Mac Help -> Filesharing. I've found both the firewire and ethernet methods easy and quick and they worked for me because I wanted to pick which files I wanted to copy to the new machine (rather than all of them).
I will wait for quite a while before installing Leopard again (if at all); not only because of the keyboard issue, but Disk Utility seems to have some major problems, and so does the System itself (showing up during 20+ minutes of every Permissions Repair with 71 full pages of "ACH found but not expected in..." listing what seems to be every single system file). I also prefer to open the contents of a folder from the dock in alphabetical order, rather than the admittedly cool looking icons - when you have 120+ items/folders in that folder, it's a waste of time to get through all of those icons. And Spaces didn't work for me either. So, except for the cool desktop picture, I wasn't at all impressed with Leopard. However, I did use the included iLife 08 (except iMovie 08) and custom installed that once I had Tiger up and running.

HT2956 Trying to install Leopard on my iBookG4

Trying to install Leopard on my iBookG4, but I get a msg that "The installer could not validate the contents of the 'AdditionalSpeechVoices' package." Can't I just make it skip that package and install the rest somehow?

I believe it is possible to do a custom installation, but I don't know if you can isolate a component that may be regarded as "essential" by the operating system. Usually a custom installation is if some otherwise optional component such as an old version of iTunes is not wanted for installation.
You could try making a backup copy of the DVD and installing from that. Suggestions on how to do that are here: http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/make_a_dvd_copy_of_mac_os_x_tiger Note, you will probably need a dual layer DVD, not the more common single layer.

How to install leopard on iMac g5 questions?

hello...
i am trying to install leopard on my imac g5. I tried using a USB hard drive to use it with but people in this forum said that i couldnt...
my iMac's cd drive does not let me use my Leopard install disk.. it ejects it everytime..
Question.. How can i install Leopard on this iMac??
Can i some how use the USB HD to install it onto my main HD??
thanks..

You may find a better answer on the "G5" forum...but, I had no problem installing Leopard on my son-in-law's 2005 G5, 20" iMac. I don't understand why it won't load from the built in disk drive since this is the way I installed it.
Are you sure that the disk you're using in the basic Leopard OS? It should work.
Hopefully you'll solve your problem in the "G5" forum.
virg

CANNOT install Leopard 10.5.6 formatted hdd into PowerMac G4 (graphite)

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.
when powering up i get the whole "panic (cpu 0 caller..." deal:
panic(cpu 0 caller oxoo36fffc)
"unable to find driver for this platform:
\"powermac3,3\"\n"@/sourcecache/xn4/xn4.....etc.
mac os version: not yet set
kernal version: darwin kernal 9.6.0:
..........etc, so on and so forth.
i asked around and people said that it seems like i need to update the bios, but i dont know how to do that.
also, when i try to just put in my OSX install disc and install leopard onto the original drive, it says there were errors and that it could not be completed after the entire installation process goes through.
WHAT CAN I DO TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM? anything i am missing?

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.
Dale

IChat video stopped working after installing leopard

I frequently use iChat to talk to my son in Madrid and other family members. He uses a mac G5 and while running OS 10.4 X all was well. We both have non Intel power PCs with external apple iSight cameras. I am still running OS 10.4.11, and as soon as he installed leopard we lost the video part of iChat. I get a message saying IP address invalid, but we have not made any addressing changes. I have a suspicion that leopard only supports the built in version of iSight and not the older external version of the camera. I can still use iChat with new Intel macs running leopard but with the internal camera. Please does anyone have any ideas or a work around?

Many thanks for your reply. After reading it my son fixed the problem by turning off internet sharing on leopard. Previously he shared his router with a Macbook via his airport card. However Apple please take note. This worked fine with Tiger and works ok with Skype so Leopard has regressed in this respect. However it is really great to have video back with iChat

Replacing the HDD and installing leopard (PLEASE HELP)!!!

hi there,
i currently have a macbook that has just gone out of warranty. i bought a new HDD from WD, installed tiger (using the original discs that come with the mac) and then installed leopard. it seemed to be working fine (apart from a few keyboard buttons playing up), until less than 2 weeks of doing this, the hard drive crashed out on me. i was absolutely gutted! mainly due to the fact a lot of the files i copied over and new ones had gone. i put in the original HDD (which i left as it was) and it worked as normal. i have now received a new HDD from WD and am about to install it along with 2 x 1GB RAM sticks.
i have no problems installing the HDD again or the RAM. the only concerns are, when selecting the new HDD when previously installing it, i lost out on about 30GB of memory (10GB after formatting, 15GB after installing tiger & 5GB after installing leopard). that's about a quarter of my HDD gone. i would have installed leopard clean but i wanted ilife '06 that came with tiger.
is there a way to install leopard clean and then install just ilife '06 by itself from the installation discs, so i can save some space on the new HDD?
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Install Leopard by itself. Do not install Tiger. When you do your Leopard install watch the lower left corner of the install screen and when you see custom click it. That way you can choose not to include all the printer drivers and language files. That will knock off a few gig.
Once Leopard is running insert your 1st install disk. Once it opens choose the install bundled software choice. Once it is open you can do a custom install and put just what you want back on your MacBook. That way you don't get all the extras.

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