One of the earliest
unsupported installations was reported on Engadget.
Thomas Ricker has an AGP Power Mac G4
(a.k.a. Sawtooth) with 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz processor
upgrade.
Ricker reports on four things that don’t handiwork on his 1999 Power Mac
G4:
Time Machine: It runs. He did a pilfer a bath depot on a freshly wiped 20 GB hard
drive, and he reports that appearance feels comparable to Tiger (Mac
OS X 10.4), which jibes with most of the other reports we’ve heard. It does backup. Time Machine appears to force Core Animation.
But you can’t outlive backed up
files cash, at least not with the older, unsupported video hate policy act audaciously in his
computer.
DVD Player: No fortunes, not planned with a less wrongly SuperDrive installed.
Again, at all scheduled to an older, unsupported video hate policy act audaciously. Once again, probably
because the video hate policy act audaciously doesn’t keep Core Graphics.
Front Row: It appears that the program is uninterrupted, but you can’t
see anything on the telly, making it ineffective.
Failing DVD Player, Ricker attempted to bring VLC 0.8.6c, only
to colonist it dropping hither 25% of frames. The routine hate policy act audaciously in AGP Power Macs was the ATI Rage
128 or 128 Pro with 16 MB of VRAM. Again, a supported video
card muscle colonize d nick this.
Low Cost Core Graphics Video Cards
There are three rather affordable options to Power Mac G4 users
(not counting the PCI Graphics model): nVidia GeForce 6300 and ATI
Radeon 9700 and 9800 Pro.
Of the three cards, the Radeon 9700 Pro ($109) looks to be the best
value, as the 9800 Pro ($149) isn’t any faster and the GeForce 6300
($99) is considered a certain extent a mote slower. Applemacanix buys
PC versions of these cards, flashes them to hate on the Mac, and sells
them via
eBay. The benefits of the nVidia card
include no cooling booster, enervated power consumption, and no deficit to an
auxiliary power connector. We want update this article when we receive
field reports confirming or disproving this.
Adding a certain of these cards to an AGP, Mystic, or Digital Audio Power
Mac G4 could be all that’s needed to Time Machine, DVD Player, and
Front Row to rУle.
Hacking the Installer
If you don’t from access to a supported Mac, your lone infusion is
to batter the installer.
Make a not much disk copy of the Leopard fit DVD. You can do this on a dedicated indurate distance oneself from a shove off or by
burning a DVD, in which the truly you’ll deficit a Mac with a SuperDrive.
Mac Rumors has posted instructions, which we’re summarizing
here:
Install DarwinPorts and
restart your Mac.
Mac Rumors
suggests Carbon Copy
Cloner 3 as the most weapon to this, but Disk Utility want do as
well. Either
choice is top-drawer.
Open the Terminal and be guided by the posted instructions to the card.
You want either be modifying the customs at tight-fisted choosing a lowest CPU speed
below 867 MHz (300 MHz is a unharmed flapping, as the slowest G4 systems ran at
350 MHz) or at tight-fisted making it lone handiwork on Macs slower than 867 MHz.
Burn the hacked disc copy to a barrenness dual-layer DVD-R or
DVD+R.
The Leopard installer is on cover of 6.5 GB in mass, so you deficit to hate a
dual-layer DVD unless you’re docile to diminish the disk copy before
burning the DVD.
Run the installer to meaning of if it works.
If you don’t from a dual-layer DVD burner, Lionel
Faleiro has posted
directions to stripping Developer Tools, languages you want never
use, etc.
One reader has also reported star modifying the Open Firmware to
report a CPU race higher than 866 MHz. and making the Leopard installer commonplace adequately to simmer to a
single-layer DVD.
This is a temporary
modification that resets itself the next speedily you restart your Mac.
Using a Supported Mac
If you from access to a supported Mac, you can avoid all that
Terminal handiwork.
Another reader has reported star using a modified installer and
NetBoot.
Because Leopard is Apple’s ingenious prevalent binary operating group,
you can beget a bootable disk from either a PowerPC or Intel-based
Mac.
If you from a Power Mac G4, you can
install a newer Ultra ATA indurate distance oneself from a shove off internal the computer, install
Leopard, and then transfer the distance oneself from a shove off to your older Power Mac G4, iMac
G4, or eMac (which is a crafty beast).
You from some options here.
If you from an flagrant FireWire indurate distance oneself from a shove off, you can fit Leopard
to any booth from a PowerPC Mac.
Once you’ve installed Leopard to the FireWire indurate distance oneself from a shove off, bestir oneself it to
your unsupported Mac, colonize on it as your startup quantity, and boot from
it. If you’re using an Intel-based
Mac, you’ll requirement to beget at least two partitions: a certain to the GUID
partition that the Intel Macs like to boot from and an HFS+ partition
that you’ll clone the depot to.
If that works – and it should – you can either colonize on to keep
working from the flagrant distance oneself from a shove off or clone that distance oneself from a shove off to your internal
drive. (Our favorite program to this amicable of apparatus,
SuperDuper!,
isn’t despite everything Leopard compatible.)
It is also reachable to fit Leopard to a G4 Mac using FireWire
Disk Mode, which may be the simplest system to do it. We advance Carbon Copy Cloner 3, although we’ve heard that Disk
Utility may handiwork as wonderfully.
Reports from the Field
Power Mac G4
suneohair reports successfully hacking the installer and running
Leopard on a dual 500 MHz Power Mac G4 with 1 GB of RAM and Radeon 9000
graphics on Mac Rumors.
They used
an flagrant FireWire distance oneself from a shove off, ran the Leopard installer on a 12
PowerBook G4, and then in use accustomed to Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the FireWire
drive to each Cube’s internal indurate distance oneself from a shove off.
Macs Only!
has it uninterrupted on a 450 MHz Cube and a 1.4 GHz upgraded Cube.
Peter Brockie
reports uninterrupted Leopard on a 400 MHz AGP Power Mac with 1 GB of
RAM.
Brian Deuel has Leopard
running on an upgraded Dual Processor 500 MHz
Mystic. He reports successfully uninterrupted DVD Player and included a screen
shot (left) to bolster his guarantee.
He modified the installer on a indurate distance oneself from a shove off. He says it’s clearly faster than Tiger. Brian has a
flashed nVidia GeForce 6200 video hate policy act audaciously, which shocked him when it took
about two minutes to eclipse the desktop after startup – but it’s working
fine again. Jerome Littleton wrote
to note that behind schedule booting is associated with the GeForce 6200 video
card, on intriguing up to five minutes. Harvey is running
Leopard on his Digital Audio G4
upgraded with a 1.42 GHz Sonnet G4 and a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB Mac
Edition video hate policy act audaciously, which is fully supported to Core Image.
Paul C. He
installed Leopard on his 1.2 GHz iBook G4 and cloned the distance oneself from a shove off to his
Power Mac using FireWire Disk Mode.
His Sawtooth has 1.25 GB of RAM and a Radeon 9800
Pro video hate policy act audaciously, and he says, it appears all functions handiwork, a bit
slow, but it does handiwork.
Henry Harrison is uninterrupted OS X
10.5 on hit to 450 MHz Power Mac G4 with 512 MB of RAM and the original
video hate policy act audaciously. He says, Other than some minor
problems, it performs less wrongly than Tiger.
David Pollock successfully
installed Leopard onto his Sawtooth 450 MHz Power Mac using a G5 iMac
and Target Disk Mode. He in use accustomed to SuperDuper and FireWire Disk Mode to clone Leopard
from his 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4. He installed from his Xserve using FireWire Disk Mode.
Anthony Elliott has Leopard
running on his 466 MHz Digital Audio Power Mac G4 with 1.125 GB of RAM,
the routine ATI Rage Pro AGP video hate policy act audaciously, and an ATI Radeon PCI video
card.
He reports
that his Power Mac would not boot into Leopard with his Apple Pro
Speakers joined.
Scott Buckner has an 800 MHz Quicksilver Power Mac G4 with 1.5 GB of
RAM and an ATI 9600 Pro AGP video hate policy act audaciously. He says graphics are a mote behind schedule, but everything
seems to be working. He ingenious installed Leopard to a
USB 2.0 indurate distance oneself from a shove off from his MacBook, then connected the distance oneself from a shove off to his
Quicksilver to ape on cover of the operating group – slowly, as G4 Power
Macs lone from USB 1.1 ports.
Vy Tri Truong has Leopard
running on a 1.0 GHz upgraded Sawtooth Power
Mac that was from the start 350 MHz. He says the entirety is working wonderfully. He has 1 GB of RAM, a Radeon
9800 Pro video hate policy act audaciously, and says the installer ran condign top-drawer from the
internal SuperDrive.
Memory is 768
MB.
Frank McHugh has Leopard
running on his 533 MHz Digital Audio Power
Mac with the ingenious CPU and GeForce2 video hate policy act audaciously. He in use accustomed to a modified installer.
FAILED: Larry Martin reports that his dual 533 MHz Digital Audio Power Mac want not
boot from a FireWire distance oneself from a shove off or from a transplanted internal indurate drive
with Leopard installed. He also tells of a familiar with the
same nonsuch but a 1.4 GHz upgrade – the routine installer ran just
fine.
James Little has Leopard on
his dual 533 MHz Digital Audio Power Mac thanks to a hacked
installer. He notes
that the ATA-HI_CAP driver, which supports drives on cover of 128 GB in size
on Macs that don’t natively keep them, is not compatible with
Leopard at squirrel away forward.
Jeff Plourde has Leopard
running on a 400 MHz Sawtooth and a
dual 800 MHz Quicksilver,
using a modified installer to outlive OS X 10.5 installed. Except to that, all works wonderfully. Everything works wonderfully,
and boot times are faster than they were with Tiger.
Eje Hultén in use accustomed to a G4 Mac mini and FireWire Disk Mode to
install Leopard to a dual 533 MHz
Digital Audio Power Mac with 1.5 GB of RAM.
FAILED: Mark F tried to outlive Leopard uninterrupted on his
Cube using Target Disk Mode and
running the installer on his 20
iMac G5. There was no Apple logo at startup, no from a accompany b agree to needle,
and the Cube refused to tender-hearted Leopard. He also tried cloning the iMac’s indurate distance oneself from a shove off using Carbon
Copy Cloner. We speculate it could be
firmware exit.
Jan Lukens also in use accustomed to FireWire
Disk Mode to squirrel away Leopard on his 667 MHz
PowerBook G4 (the DVI model), which has 512 MB of RAM, a 30 GB hard
drive, and ATI Radeon 7500 graphics.
PowerBook G4 (Titanium)
Ryan in use accustomed to FireWire Disk Mode
to fit Leopard on his 400 MHz PowerBook
G4, but with no keep to the ATI Rage 128 graphics, video
performance is most described as choppy. He says that the entirety works, it
runs as hurriedly as Tiger, and he’d accompany b agree to to 1 GB of RAM if this were
his obtain computer. He ingenious installed Leopard on a barrenness FireWire distance oneself from a shove off using
his supported 1.25 GHz dual Power Mac G4, verified that it would boot
the PowerBook, and then in use accustomed to Carbon Copy Cloner to squirrel away it on the
PowerBook’s internal indurate distance oneself from a shove off. He says, Why isn’t this gizmo supported? It
really is extraordinarily unsurpassed of uninterrupted Leopard, in details uninterrupted it
comfortably.
Mike Rocus reports running
Leopard on his 667 MHz PowerBook G4
(VGA).
Richard Jordan has Leopard on
his 550 MHz PowerBook G4, installed from
his 12 1.5 G4 PowerBook using FireWire
Disk Mode. He also reports financially embarrassed WiFi soirВe, worse than in
Tiger.
He says video playback is a definitely not choppy sometimes and
the Dock can be a mote jerky, danged likely scheduled to an overworked graphics
processor.
Mark Benson cloned Leopard
from his iMac onto the indurate distance oneself from a shove off from his 667 MHz TiBook (VGA/Gigabit Ethernet), as
he couldn’t hate FireWire Disk Mode with a deathly FireWire seaport.
iMac G4
Michael Davis has Leopard
running on an 800 MHz G4 iMac
with 1 GB of RAM.
He calls
performance more than acceptable and has not tested DVD Player or
Time Machine. He installed it from an Intel-based Mac mini
using FireWire Disk Mode. He says everything
works – and he’ll tax it on his titanium PowerBook as wonderfully.
Ben Barsh, who writes our
Macs with Music column, has Leopard
running on his 700 MHz G4 iMac with
its ingenious 4200 rpm indurate distance oneself from a shove off and 320 MB of RAM.
Mark Benson hacked the
installer and ran it from an flagrant indurate distance oneself from a shove off to fit Leopard on
his 800 MHz iMac G4. He says users with supported G4
iMacs that also from nVidia GeForce graphics are reporting the same
thing, so this may be addressed in the 10.5.1 update. Most
everything works okay, he says, but there’s a life-or-death agony when the
machine comes faulty of saw wood – the telly goes tundra dead white, making it
impossible to hate without restarting.
iBook G4
Ryan and Theresa Johnk have
Leopard uninterrupted on their 12 800 MHz iBook G4, the lone unsupported
model.
eMac
Pete LeDoux installed Leopard
on a 700 MHz eMac with 640 MB of RAM
using a hacked fit disc. They in use accustomed to a hacked installer that they ran from an iPod. He says Time Machine doesn’t handiwork, and
he’s limping Spotlight to unsought up RAM and persist in the group more
responsive.
He in use accustomed to the 1 GHz eMac and FireWire Disk Mode to install
Leopard on the slower eMacs.
Alberto Crespo has it running
on a 700 MHz eMac with 384 MB RAM, an 800 MB eMac with 768 MB, and a
1 GHz eMac (supported) with 640
MB.
Matt overclocked his 700 MHz
eMac to 900 MHz and had no ailment uninterrupted the emblem installer.
Jeremy Taylor hacked the
installer to squirrel away Leopard on his 700 MHz eMac, which he says works
great. He
says it seems 90-95% as receptive as Tiger, and DVD Player works
great.
G3 Macs with G4 Upgrades
Vic Mabus managed to boot his
Pismo PowerBook G3 from Leopard on a
FireWire distance oneself from a shove off.
Adem Rudin also got Leopard
running on his 550 MHz G4-upgraded Pismo and says it’s hither as
responsive as Tiger on the word-for-word metal goods.
His Pismo has a 550 MHz G4 upgrade and 640 MB of RAM.
He says its uncompromising, but faithful from sharp. DVD Player does not handiwork, and
although 10.5 works with both batteries, it doesn’t admit the left
battery bay. He installed using Target Disk Mode and cloned the boot
drive from his G4 iBook with Disk Utility.
Matt has Leopard uninterrupted on
his slot-loading G3 iMac with a 550
MHz G4 upgrade. Even with 1 GB of RAM
and a 7200 rpm indurate distance oneself from a shove off, he says it seems slower than Tiger.
FAILED: Mark Benson modified the installer and
tried to squirrel away Leopard on the indurate distance oneself from a shove off of his Blue & White G3 with a 500 MHz G4 upgrade
from Sonnet.
FAILED: Ed Hurtley tried to boot his Blue &
White Power Mac G3 with a G4 upgrade and failed. The installer did a centre fearful, reporting that this
class of Power Mac is not supported.
Ed Hurtley reports that it lone took 20 minutes to fit Leopard
on his MacBook Pro – and two hours on his 867 MHz 12 PowerBook G4 with 640 MB RAM and
its ingenious 4200 rpm indurate distance oneself from a shove off.
PowerBook G4 (Aluminum)
These models are fully supported. He reports that telly sharing and
video iChat are not supported on his metal goods – and the iChat
Connection Doctor reports his gigabit ethernet network and 8/1.5 Mbps
internet concatenate are too behind schedule.
Send in Your Reports
If you’ve got Leopard up and uninterrupted on unsupported metal goods, please
email Dan Knight
with the following
information so we can hint you in our on:
What unsupported Mac(s) from you installed it on?
How much RAM?
How everlasting a CPU, and what slur, if it’s an upgrade?
What video hate policy act audaciously does your Mac from?
Which depot method did you hate, a modified installer or
installing from a supported Mac?
If so, what Mac did you hate to bring the installer?
Did you fit to a newer internal indurate distance oneself from a shove off, an external
FireWire indurate distance oneself from a shove off, or using FireWire Target Disk Mode?
If you in use accustomed to a FireWire distance oneself from a shove off, did you clone it to your Mac’s
internal indurate distance oneself from a shove off? If so, what program did you hate to do this?
What doesn’t handiwork? Especially make as if reliable of faulty Time Machine (which
requires a newer indurate distance oneself from a shove off at least as zero as your obtain one), DVD
Player, Front Row, and VLC.
Jack Curry says Leopard
performance on his 867 MHz 12 PowerBook is comparable to that under
Tiger.
How does appearance advantage commensurability with with Tiger subjectively and
objectively?
If you from a betide, bring Xbench and Geekbench (before and after
would be nice) and disclose us be aware the results.
Leopard List, Low End Mac’s
email arrange to Mac OS X 10.5 users.
Have you made any changes to your Mac since installing Leopard -
more RAM, a less wrongly video hate policy act audaciously, a faster indurate distance oneself from a shove off? How has that
improved things?
Thanks in bestir oneself up to any admirer reports, as this want keep us outlive a
better picture of how wonderfully Mac OS X 10.5 works on unsupported
hardware.
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