I'm trying to bring an old iMac G5 back to life after I accidentally cloned an intel-based Leopard system onto the internal hard drive. I downloaded a.toast version of OSX Tiger (the download consist of the Install DVD.toast file and 4 separate.dmg files). This is what I've tried so far: - Started up the iMac in FireWire target disk mode connected to my MBP. Download Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger DVD (PPC) torrent or any other torrent from Mac category. Direct download via HTTP available as well. Evangelisches gesangbuch pdf files. - Used Disk Utility on the MBP to restore the iMac disk from the mounted Install DVD.toast This is what the iMac disk looks like now: The iMac starts up fine until the grey Apple logo with the loading wheel below, after a minute the Apple logo turns into this: Is it possible to install Tiger by copying files to the startup disk this way? IMac, Mac OS X (10.4) Posted on Jan 22, 2012 10:20 AM. I agree, you will need to first erase the drive because you apparently cloned an Intel OS X system into a PPC, which certainly will fail to boot. It is possible to install Tiger without a DVD drive itself, see for how to do this. I don't understand your problem: is it (a) you have the Tiger install DVD but your Mac's DVD drive doesn't work; or (b) you have a working DVD drive but you don't have the Tiger install DVD at all. If it's (b), where did you get those 'downloaded' toast-type Tiger install files? Is this some sort of bootleg effort to install without the actual OS X Tiger DVD. (I'm assuming it is not, but if it is, follks on these forums generally don't support such efforts.) If you have a working DVD drive or CD drive for your PPC, you can purchase from various private sellers the Tiger install DVD or Tiger install CD's. These would be the Apple-manufactured DVD's and CD's, now being sold second hand. Then you can boot from the correct install media and erase and install Tiger. Even if your internal DVD/CD drive is not working, you can get an external bootable DVD drive at low cost, or use the method in the link I provided above. Do you have the original install disks that came with your iMac G5?
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