imac g5 dvd hell

[ratdude747]

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You should have researched and got correct firewire external box with proper chipset that Mac supports.

Cheers, Wizard

the one i got was all i could find for sale. it saw the drive with a ubuntu ppc cd just fine.

ps- i do not have the original, it was a torrent.

maybe the lesson is never buy a mac? all of this is stupid.

ps- the fact that it is a poly mod would not be part of the problem?

[seanc]

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You're making silly accusations now.

The problem is most likely that the disc was modified before it was uploaded to the torrent site - you said yourself it's a dual layer disc cut down to fit on a single layer.

We're all trying to help, the suggestions I've given you are simple, I have been using them for a long time to get round problematic, or in my case non-existent optical drives.

I highly doubt poly-modding would not affect it - topcat would have spotted that.

[ratdude747]

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ok... the origianl full sized torrent was wrong as well (to copy to the new "restore" partition)... clearly off. i think it was a torrenting error.

finding torrents with seeders for this has been hell. i have no original and i have no way getting one without paying a crapload. if this torrent is bad then i do not know what i will do.

[Wizard]

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My apologies. Hint: if you can get a SHA1 hash line for that image, you can run against this info on the downloaded image and if image comes up SHA1 match, then known good, if not, it is corrupted. I had to do few attempts on different sites till I find one that is good images.

Cheers, Wizard

[shovenose]

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maybe the lesson is never buy a mac? all of this is stupid.

yes! that reason i hate macs theyre too damn wierd, like i betcha this imac g5 has bad caps. (at school) (im using it right now) it randomly freezes for a couple seconds, and also the internet stops loading pages...very frustrating

[ratdude747]

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no, it has been recapped. poly modded, i might add.

it was one of topcat's first prototypes for the imac poly kit. i am beta testing it for him hence why i want to get it to work.

[shovenose]

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U are topcats neighbor? Lol thats cool u get free stuff to beta test

[ratdude747]

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no, he lives a good ways away. he shipped it and i added a hd and some more ram.

[shovenose]

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can i beta test too?

[ratdude747]

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i doubt it. he only had one to spare.

[shovenose]

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Jk

[deckart]

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Go to Ebay and buy one from there,or phone Apple,tell them the model you have and they will sell you one for not too much.You must get the standalone 10.5 or 10.4 disc if on Ebay,the original was a 2 disc affair.If you have no luck,someone here must have a copy and could mail you a disk image.

[ratdude747]

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exept a copy for 10.5 (i have 10.4 on cd) is dvd dl. dl is expensive. they no longer sell os 10.5.

[seanc]

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As mentioned earlier, you can put the DVD image onto an external firewire HDD to run the install.

[ratdude747]

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don't have one (other than the g4 sawtooth). hence why i am putting it on a partition on the INTERNAL hard drive and i can get it extracted there, then i could boot and install that way.

i downloaded the image to my laptop. once extracted, it will be target disk'd to the g5 and i will try that.

[seanc]

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Putting it on the internal drive should be fine, same for the sawtooth in TDM or putting a HDD into the firewire case you have.

[ratdude747]

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ok, this is weird

every vanilla 10.5 image i find says 6.7gb as a image but the files read 408.3mb when extracted. no boot.

any ideas? i might have to kiss ass and buy a disc... unless someone else could burn off a copy?

[seanc]

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What format are the files once the download is finished?

[ratdude747]

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it did it both as a .iso and a .dmg converted to .iso.

since the mac half of the former dualboot got hosed, i will re-install osx 10.4 and mess with the dmg that way (if it makes a difference).

[seanc]

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I missed your edit way up above where you said you were extracting the image files. Don't do that!

Put the ISO or DMG somewhere accessible on or to the iMac.
Boot from the 10.4 CD, launch disk utility.
Select the partition you're using as the partition to restore the DVD image onto.
Select the restore tab.
Select the DVD image as the source, drag the partition as the destination.
If you select 'erase destination' it should perform a block copy and go faster. Note, you will loose all data on the partition.
Reboot, hold option key, boot into 10.5 installer

I highly expect when you've extracted the images, it's only been extracting the 'PC' side of things - the part with Bootcamp drivers and utilities on.