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PowerMac G5. Installing 10.5 off USB device?
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<blockquote data-quote="ramp4ge" data-source="post: 1507428" data-attributes="member: 244117"><p>Hi all.</p><p></p><p>I pulled my trusty old Cypher out of the closet and figured I'd get it up and going as a media server or something. It's got a lot of old data that I'm not interested in keeping and I'd really like to just format/reload her.</p><p></p><p>My 10.5 disk was rendered unreadable years ago, but I still have my image.</p><p></p><p>Now, here's where my problems begin.</p><p></p><p>I'm trying to get the image onto a USB device (external HDD or flash drive) and I'm having a lot of trouble.</p><p></p><p>Here's the process I go thru.</p><p></p><p>1) Partition the USB device as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and with the Apple Partition Map.</p><p></p><p>2) Use the Restore option to load the ISO onto the new partition.</p><p></p><p>3) Open the USB drive and run the installer, which prompts me to restart the computer.</p><p></p><p>When I restart the computer, I get a flashing square Earth globe. This has always meant to me that it can't find a bootable device by itself. Remedy for this is to reboot holding Alt (opt on an Apple keyboard) and select the primary HDD and boot. No other bootable devices are shown.</p><p></p><p>Someone help me. This is driving me up a wall.</p><p></p><p>My next step is to try to burn the ISO to a dual-layer DVD, but I'm having the hardest time finding them locally..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ramp4ge, post: 1507428, member: 244117"] Hi all. I pulled my trusty old Cypher out of the closet and figured I'd get it up and going as a media server or something. It's got a lot of old data that I'm not interested in keeping and I'd really like to just format/reload her. My 10.5 disk was rendered unreadable years ago, but I still have my image. Now, here's where my problems begin. I'm trying to get the image onto a USB device (external HDD or flash drive) and I'm having a lot of trouble. Here's the process I go thru. 1) Partition the USB device as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and with the Apple Partition Map. 2) Use the Restore option to load the ISO onto the new partition. 3) Open the USB drive and run the installer, which prompts me to restart the computer. When I restart the computer, I get a flashing square Earth globe. This has always meant to me that it can't find a bootable device by itself. Remedy for this is to reboot holding Alt (opt on an Apple keyboard) and select the primary HDD and boot. No other bootable devices are shown. Someone help me. This is driving me up a wall. My next step is to try to burn the ISO to a dual-layer DVD, but I'm having the hardest time finding them locally.. [/QUOTE]
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