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Beloved G5 PPC suffered complete motherboard death a month ago, so I bought a brand-new Mac Mini.
I had been running the latest available version of Leopard on the G5 & backed everything up to OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro external drive before death occurred (did not use TimeMachine).
I love the Mini, but am having a lot of problems getting apps up & running on the Mini, most of which I assume have to do with trying to go from a PPC/Leopard configuration to Intel/Lion. I also would like to be able to access my backed-up Leopard FileVault user sparseimage file.
No Snow Leopard, obviously...which I gather from the Forums might be part of the problem.
Any help would be appreciated with unseemly humility.
I figured a clean install of Leopard onto what used to be my boot HD would do the trick. I erased & configured the HD (i.e., it's a clean GUID/HFS+ drive). I can't seem to do this at all.
I haven't started weeping like a child yet, but that check's in the mail...
I had been running the latest available version of Leopard on the G5 & backed everything up to OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro external drive before death occurred (did not use TimeMachine).
I love the Mini, but am having a lot of problems getting apps up & running on the Mini, most of which I assume have to do with trying to go from a PPC/Leopard configuration to Intel/Lion. I also would like to be able to access my backed-up Leopard FileVault user sparseimage file.
No Snow Leopard, obviously...which I gather from the Forums might be part of the problem.
Any help would be appreciated with unseemly humility.
I figured a clean install of Leopard onto what used to be my boot HD would do the trick. I erased & configured the HD (i.e., it's a clean GUID/HFS+ drive). I can't seem to do this at all.
Attempt A.
While running Lion, I figured I could just install Leopard from the Leopard DVD onto the HD in the dock. Clicking on install resulted in a message telling me to restart in order to install Leopard. Doing this results in a momentary hang stating some sort of panic, then tells me I need to restart again. Repeat ad nauseam.
While running Lion, I figured I could just install Leopard from the Leopard DVD onto the HD in the dock. Clicking on install resulted in a message telling me to restart in order to install Leopard. Doing this results in a momentary hang stating some sort of panic, then tells me I need to restart again. Repeat ad nauseam.
Attempt B.
Thought maybe I could just restart directly from Leopard DVD (hold C key during startup) & install onto HD. Same panic/restart result.
Thought maybe I could just restart directly from Leopard DVD (hold C key during startup) & install onto HD. Same panic/restart result.
Attempt C.
Tried booting from DVD while holding Option during startup); same thing. Also tried the shift/option/Apple/delete startup just for giggles; same result. Zapped PRAM just for kicks & repeated. Same result.
Tried booting from DVD while holding Option during startup); same thing. Also tried the shift/option/Apple/delete startup just for giggles; same result. Zapped PRAM just for kicks & repeated. Same result.
I haven't started weeping like a child yet, but that check's in the mail...
