Unsupported Mac OS 10.5 install
Because I am the way I am, I chose to upgrade my old, expendable 800 mHz iBook G4 (via target disk mode from my Intel MacBook) to Leopard despite the warnings that it was an unsupported model. However, the machine is snappier and faster than ever as opposed to it's predecessor OS and seems to work flawlessly. Has anyone else tried this on an 800 mHz machine and been delightfully surprised by it's success? So confused why Apple excluded any processors slower than 867, I guess I'm also wondering if I'm overworking the processor and this thing will explode while I'm not home and burn down my neighborhood.
sman_spf wrote:
I installed form DVD 10.5.6. I ran disk utility and found nothing wrong.
I don't know what this means. What did you run with Disk Utility?
Start with repair permissions via Disk Utility. If you've not done that before, it will take a fairly long time, at least 15 minutes, and may generate a few messages. Most likely, they're inconsequential.
If that doesn't help, then either Verify Disk or Repair Disk. If you only have one bootable disk, you can't repair it while running from it, so it's probably easiest to use Verify Disk. If Verify finds any problems, you'll have to boot from your Leopard disk and use it's copy of Disk Utility to do the Repair.
If that doesn't help, it looks like something went wrong with one of those updates, and you should install the "combo" update. This is a sort of consolidation of all the updates since Leopard was first released, so it should repair whatever went wrong.
Here's the scoop: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10-5-6_ComboUpdate
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