OT: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard .iso needed
Off-topic -- I acquired an iMac G5 (PowerPC) today. The previous owner put Linux on it. I want to go back to OS X 10.5 Leopard (it won't run anything newer). Unable to find any working online links to download the .iso file. Can anyone help?
On 08/16/2016 11:42 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Off-topic -- I acquired an iMac G5 (PowerPC) today. The previous owner put Linux on it. I want to go back to OS X 10.5 Leopard (it won't run anything newer). Unable to find any working online links to download the .iso file. Can anyone help?
See off-list reply. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:42 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Off-topic -- I acquired an iMac G5 (PowerPC) today. The previous owner put Linux on it. I want to go back to OS X 10.5 Leopard (it won't run anything newer). Unable to find any working online links to download the .iso file. Can anyone help?
I can help, but I would recommend Tiger (10.4) instead; it's faster, and it'll still run Classic (for running pre-OS X apps). The only benefit I can think of for 10.5 on PPC is Time Machine, but for a vintage machine, that's not much of a draw considering all the drawbacks. Leopard was a real stinker on PPC. - Dave
I agree with David… OS 10.4.11 is very stable.. still have it running on a older iMac and a Mini. 73 de Ray
On Aug 17, 2016, at 12:42 AM, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:42 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Off-topic -- I acquired an iMac G5 (PowerPC) today. The previous owner put Linux on it. I want to go back to OS X 10.5 Leopard (it won't run anything newer). Unable to find any working online links to download the .iso file. Can anyone help?
I can help, but I would recommend Tiger (10.4) instead; it's faster, and it'll still run Classic (for running pre-OS X apps). The only benefit I can think of for 10.5 on PPC is Time Machine, but for a vintage machine, that's not much of a draw considering all the drawbacks. Leopard was a real stinker on PPC.
- Dave
I've got a G5 tower here running MorphOS and it flies. You may have to hunt around for an appropriate graphics card, but if you actually want to use it to do something useful, you might look into it! There is also a G4 license which I used to have on the Quicksilver G4 here, but that's been reverted to OS 9 for posterity. :) -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 11:43 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evan@snarc.net> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard .iso needed Off-topic -- I acquired an iMac G5 (PowerPC) today. The previous owner put Linux on it. I want to go back to OS X 10.5 Leopard (it won't run anything newer). Unable to find any working online links to download the .iso file. Can anyone help?
If you don't have any luck Evan, I'll bring a tiger install disc (and leopard too if you desire) to the workshop Saturday morning. I was going to drop off your color monitor and some blank floppies for Todd (he won't be there till Sunday but I can't go Sunday morning) anyway so no sweat. Let me know if you need the install discs. Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:42 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Off-topic -- I acquired an iMac G5 (PowerPC) today. The previous owner put Linux on it. I want to go back to OS X 10.5 Leopard (it won't run anything newer). Unable to find any working online links to download the .iso file. Can anyone help?
If you don't have any luck Evan, I'll bring a tiger install disc (and leopard too if you desire) to the workshop Saturday morning. I was going to drop off your color monitor and some blank floppies for Todd (he won't be there till Sunday but I can't go Sunday morning) anyway so no sweat. Let me know if you need the install discs.
Sounds great. Bunch of us will be there for the workshop anyhow. Thanks!
I burned two DVDs, one with Lubuntu and the other with MorphOS, both for PowerPC. The computer currently boots to Debian as configured by the previous owner. It says to press 'c' to boot from the CD/DVD drive, but it seems to ignore the keypress and boots to Debian regardless. (Keyboard works fine; I can type at the login even though I don't have the credentials.) Is there some other way to force it to boot from the DVD?
I seem to recall that there is a way to modify the bios selection on some older G4 stuff.. an open firmware kind of thing… For the life of me I can’t recall the details. ———————————————————————————— David Hoelzer Founder, Chief Research Officer Enclave Forensics / Cyber Defense On August 17, 2016 at 10:03:27 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic (vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> ) wrote: I burned two DVDs, one with Lubuntu and the other with MorphOS, both for PowerPC. The computer currently boots to Debian as configured by the previous owner. It says to press 'c' to boot from the CD/DVD drive, but it seems to ignore the keypress and boots to Debian regardless. (Keyboard works fine; I can type at the login even though I don't have the credentials.) Is there some other way to force it to boot from the DVD?
The option key at boot time should bring up a boot menu. Failing that, control open-apple O F at boot time should get you to open firmware, from there you can type "boot cdrom" This is all from memory - it's been a while since I worked on a Mac like this. Could be wrong. -Ian On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I burned two DVDs, one with Lubuntu and the other with MorphOS, both for PowerPC. The computer currently boots to Debian as configured by the previous owner. It says to press 'c' to boot from the CD/DVD drive, but it seems to ignore the keypress and boots to Debian regardless. (Keyboard works fine; I can type at the login even though I don't have the credentials.) Is there some other way to force it to boot from the DVD?
The option key at boot time should bring up a boot menu.
Failing that, control open-apple O F at boot time should get you to open firmware, from there you can type "boot cdrom"
This is all from memory - it's been a while since I worked on a Mac like this. Could be wrong.
It goes right into Debian no matter what I press.
On 08/17/2016 10:28 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The option key at boot time should bring up a boot menu.
Failing that, control open-apple O F at boot time should get you to open firmware, from there you can type "boot cdrom"
This is all from memory - it's been a while since I worked on a Mac like this. Could be wrong.
It goes right into Debian no matter what I press.
Not sure if the Mac has an escape key, but I found a message stating to press and hold the shift key while booting. Good luck. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
Are you sure you're pressing it early enough? Has to be before it starts booting from the hard disk. Just for a sanity check, disconnect the hard disk and make sure you can get it to boot from something else. -Ian On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The option key at boot time should bring up a boot menu.
Failing that, control open-apple O F at boot time should get you to open firmware, from there you can type "boot cdrom"
This is all from memory - it's been a while since I worked on a Mac like this. Could be wrong.
It goes right into Debian no matter what I press.
Anthony S. came over to drop off something. He checked out the iMac while here anyhow. Neither of us are familiar enough with its bootloader (yaboot)... he made some progress but it's being temperamental. Meanwhile, the LCD has vertical lines -- a new panel isn't cheap -- and it is possible that the CD/DVD drive is at fault. This computer probably isn't worth fixing. Fortunately there is another iMac that he and I rescued yesterday, so we'll see if that one is in better shape.
On Aug 17, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The option key at boot time should bring up a boot menu.
Failing that, control open-apple O F at boot time should get you to open firmware, from there you can type "boot cdrom"
This is all from memory - it's been a while since I worked on a Mac like this. Could be wrong.
It goes right into Debian no matter what I press.
Should be cmd-option-O-F to enter Open Firmware; at the prompt, enter "bye" to do a normal ROM boot ("boot cdrom" will work on newer Open Firmwares as well). From there, if you have a bootable OS X CD/DVD in the drive (assuming you have a working drive, which is not guaranteed), you should be able to force boot that by holding "c". You should also be able to hold down Option during boot to bring up a boot menu, though that was always a bit temperamental. - Dave
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