10.5 help?

[KamenRiderTiki]

Hi, this may sound like an odd thing right now, but I have a five year old mac mini, on Mac OS 10.4 with a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 Processor and 512 MB DDR SDRAM. Recently a friend of mine gave me a disk with 10.5 OS, and I tried to install it but it keeps having me restart my computer first and leading me just in circles doing that, am I doing something wrong? if some one could help me out I would really appreciate it.

 

[CrimsonRequiem]

If it's a grey disk it won't work. Those disk are system specific and they only work with the model that they came with.

 

[KamenRiderTiki]

No, the disk isnt gray.

 

[pigoo3]

Recently a friend of mine gave me a disk with 10.5 OS, and I tried to install it but it keeps having me restart my computer first and leading me just in circles doing that, am I doing something wrong? if some one could help me out I would really appreciate it.

What sort of disk is this? Is it an original disk or a burned copy?

- Nick

 

[KamenRiderTiki]

Burned, sorry, I should have mentioned that

 

[6string]

Recently a friend of mine gave me a disk with 10.5 OS, and I tried to install it but it keeps having me restart my computer first and leading me just in circles doing that, am I doing something wrong?

Burned, sorry, I should have mentioned that

Yes you are doing something wrong... It's called piracy.

 

[MightyGem]

Burned

Then it may be a copy of your friends grey disc, which still won't work.

 

[harryb2448]

Nothing more to add as 6string has said it all in that one nasty word!

Go and purchase your own leopard full retail install VD.

 

[KamenRiderTiki]

Nothing more to add as 6string has said it all in that one nasty word!

Go and purchase your own leopard full retail install VD.

If I could find it in retail stores I wouldn't have to get a burned disk from a friend. **** if I had money I'd just save up and get a new mac. Ninjacy may be bad (I refuse to be associated with pirates) but if its the only way to get something to work than I will do it.

 

[pigoo3]

Then it may be a copy of your friends grey disc, which still won't work.

This is exactly what I was thinking when I asked my earlier question.

- Nick

 

[pigoo3]

If I could find it in retail stores I wouldn't have to get a burned disk from a friend.

Ninjacy may be bad (I refuse to be associated with pirates) but if its the only way to get something to work than I will do it.

Original retail copies of 10.5 are available on e-Bay.

- Nick

 

[6string]

Amazon.com: Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard: Software
Apple OS X 10.5.6 Leopard Retail Full Version for Mac (MC094Z/A) - - Product Reviews and Prices - Shopping.com
NEW APPLE MAC OS X LEOPARD FULL INSTALL DVD 10.5 (eBay item 330521797264 end time 20-Feb-11 10:27:54 AEDST) : Computers Networking

 

[toMACsh]

if I had money I'd just save up and get a new mac. Ninjacy may be bad (I refuse to be associated with pirates) but if its the only way to get something to work than I will do it.

Not having enough money for computer software is no justification for stealing. The "logic" of that last line blows me away! Applied to other things, well...

 

[6string]

Not having enough money for computer software is no justification for stealing. The "logic" of that last line blows me away! Applied to other things, well...

Your honour, I only stole the 1957 Ferrari 250 Test Rosa because I couldn't afford one, and besides, Ferrari don't sell them anymore!