[ale] [OT] Upgrade G4 Mini to OS X 10.5?

[William Fragakis]

Leopard does run on G4 (you can hack it for a G3 but I see a lot of
comments where the results are not worth the trouble). It's Snow Leopard
(10.6) that doesn't support the PPC.

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP517

On your, um, download, did you search "leopard ppc 'download'"? Lot's of
hits but that may well be what you've already done.

btw, 10.5 does not support the "classic" environment if you have OS 9
programs you still need to run. If that's the case and you can't install
on a separate partition, Sheepshaver can be pretty handy. Runs well on a
PPC or Intel Mac or Hackintosh. I've not been able to run it on an AMD
Fedora 13.

Good luck in the kingdom of Steve.

Regards,
William
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 10:44 -0600, Joe Knapka wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> My ex-wife has a G4 Mac Mini that refuses to work with her new iPod
> until it's upgraded to OSX 10.5.  Is it even possible to do this?
> Apple doesn't seem to provide 10.5 for G4 machines, unless (as is
> likely) I'm missing something obvious.  I also tried torrenting a
> "Universal" 10.5 installation DVD, but it wouldn't boot on her
> machine.
> 
> Any advice appreciated.
> 
> -- JK
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