Alternative Usb Bootable Os For Mac G5

Hi all, Long time lurker, first time poster. I've recently acquired 2 old Power Mac G5s.

Jesus Vigo goes over the steps to create a bootable USB to install OS X 10.7-10.8 and OS X 10.5-10.6, as well as how to put multiple versions on the same USB.

They came without HDDs so I picked one of them, popped in a HDD and after much digging about found a 10.3 retail disk that installed fine. Since then I've done the 10.3.9 combo update and updated the firmware on the machine to 5.1.5.f2(?). I've done a bit looking around and this Mac should support right up to 10.5.8. I have a 10.5.4 retail disc that when I inserted popped up with an autorun prompt and I chose the option to install Mac OS X 10.5.4.

The machine rebooted and then spat the disc out.was I mean to hold the 'C' key? Am I doing something incorrectly? A bit more info on the machine: -Power PC G5 (970) 1.6GHz -4GB RAM -S/N: CK3361RSPAY Thanks in advance, Darren.

When I search for specific items in a search engine and the websites come up, I want to be able to search for the words when I click on the search engine results. Previously for windows PC I will press the 'Control-F' function and they will search and highlight the words that come up. In the Find and Replace dialog box, click Find Next or Find All. Find text with specific formatting and replace the formatting You can find and replace text with special formatting, such as bold or highlight, by using the Format menu. How to search for one word on a page machine. Don't sift through long web pages. Find specific words or phrases on a web page faster with these shortcuts for Safari on the Mac and iOS. How to Find Text Within a Page in OS X. Open a page from the search results and use the Find command. Google will return any pages that match your search, but it won't point you to the matching text once you open the page. You'll need to use the Find tool to jump to where the word occurs on the page. See the previous section for information on using the Find tool.

After doing a lot of research and trying out some hints, finally I could install Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on an iMac G5 1.8 GHz, and I would like to share with you the solution that I got. This works for PowerPC Macs that don't have a Dual Layer DVD, and you wish to install Leopard using an external USB Drive instead. Start by creating the disc image of the installation media (this can be DMG, CDR, ISO or any of the disc image formats supported by Mac OS X). In my case I used an external DVD (Dual Layer) drive with the Installation media to make the image -- because the system doesn't recognize that drive in the Startup Manager (when I restart it while holding down Option key), neither was listed at System Preferences » Startup Disk.

Note: you can skip this step and make the restore directly from theDVD -- just dragging the DVD into the Source field -- explained in step 4. Connect your external drive and launch Disk Utility. Select the drive in Disk Utility and then select the Partition tab. Make sure that the drive is formatted using an Apple Partition Map scheme, not GUID or MBR (you may need to reformat your drive to get it in this form). Once the drive is in the Apple Partition Map scheme. Select the Restore tab of Disc Utility and drag the Disk Image (or the DVD in case you have an external drive) for the Installation Media onto the Source field.

Then drag the appropriate partition (in my case, the USB external drive) to the destination field. Click on restore. This may take a while to complete. Determine the partition where your bootable image it situated (e.g. An MacOSX DVD or DMG restored to a partion with Disk utility's restore).

This might be disk1s3 in which case the partition number is 3. Also you can check it on Disk Utility, select the hard drive -- right click on it and select 'Information,' and write down the 'Partition Number.' Restart your iMac while holding down Command+Option+O+F. This will place you in Open Firmware. Type dev / ls to get the device tree list. Look for something in the output like.

Type devalias ud /ht/pci@2/usb@b/disk@2. In other words: make 'ud' equal to the path you found in step 9. 11.Now verify you got the right disk: dir ud:3, (3 is the partition number you wrote down in step 7). And look for a file with tbxi attribute, probably in: System Library CoreServices BootX, e.g.: dir ud:3, System Library CoreServices 12.Then boot from it: boot ud:3, System Library CoreServices BootX 13. Wait a little bit – while the iMac restarts and if you see the Leopard Installer begin, you're done. [ crarko adds: This was a complex hint to edit, and while I tested some of the Open Firmware commands on an iMac G5, it is possible you will need to adjust some of the items depending on the PPC hardware you're working with.

I think all the front slash/back slashes are correctly placed, but if any are misplaced please note this in the comments and I will correct them.]. This saved my day!! I have a late-model 1.67GHz Powerbook which was ruined beyond Disk Utility's reach, due to a frozen OS update that forced me to power down.

I have no Firewire drives, Time Machine backup, blank DVDs, etc. All I had was a Leopard DMG sitting on my windows box and a 8GB USB drive laying around. I was successfully able to use this method to restore my computer and sanity! Here are some tidbits from my experience: -The USB had to be formatted as MACOS Extended, not Journaled.