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I've had a PowerMac G4 450Mhz for a while now, and its purpose initially for me was a torrent box. But due to the lack of torrent softwares and site updates banning Azureus 2.5.0.4 I wasn't able to use it as a torrent box and use the sites I typically do. So.. that left me with a computer that didn't have any purpose...
I didn't have anything better to do last night, so I decided to put Leopard on this machine. The tricky part is Leopard won't install on anything slower than a G4 867Mhz, this is a 450Mhz. I had read online before that you can modify your install dvd to install on older G4s so I thought it would be fun to try. After some researching and a tiny bit of terminal work I had modified the section of code preventing it from installing on slower machines and was ready to burn my custom install disk.
That is when i realized that my PowerMac G4 doesn't have a dvd drive in it. I had 2 options, install a dvd drive, or boot up my Powerbook in target disk mode and hope the G4 tower can use the Powerbook's dvd drive. In the end I decided to just install a dvd drive temporarly. Here is a pic of it.
All in all it turned out well, its pretty slow, but not unusably slow. I don't think I'll actually do much with it, and I may toy with some ppc linux distro in the future. Unfortunately I just can't come up with much to do with this comp that is very useful to me.
Here are a couple screenshots, curiously it thinks it is a 533Mhz G4 when I'm certain it is a 450Mhz. I wonder if there is just some error in reporting or if somehow its software overclocked to 533..
Then after updates
I didn't have anything better to do last night, so I decided to put Leopard on this machine. The tricky part is Leopard won't install on anything slower than a G4 867Mhz, this is a 450Mhz. I had read online before that you can modify your install dvd to install on older G4s so I thought it would be fun to try. After some researching and a tiny bit of terminal work I had modified the section of code preventing it from installing on slower machines and was ready to burn my custom install disk.
That is when i realized that my PowerMac G4 doesn't have a dvd drive in it. I had 2 options, install a dvd drive, or boot up my Powerbook in target disk mode and hope the G4 tower can use the Powerbook's dvd drive. In the end I decided to just install a dvd drive temporarly. Here is a pic of it.
All in all it turned out well, its pretty slow, but not unusably slow. I don't think I'll actually do much with it, and I may toy with some ppc linux distro in the future. Unfortunately I just can't come up with much to do with this comp that is very useful to me.
Here are a couple screenshots, curiously it thinks it is a 533Mhz G4 when I'm certain it is a 450Mhz. I wonder if there is just some error in reporting or if somehow its software overclocked to 533..
Then after updates
Mac G4 Os
The superb OSNews reported that using LeopardAssist, it took merely 'a few clicks' to install Leopard on a dual 450 MHz-equipped Power Mac G4 upgraded with 1 GB of RAM and a Quartz Extreme capable video card - which is required for Core Animation and Time Machine. It started out on PowerPC processors but later transitioned onto Intel processors with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) the last to natively support the PowerPC architecture and Snow Leopard (10.6) the last to support PowerPC applications on Intel-based Macs. All versions of Mac OS X that were made to run on PowerPC systems (with the exception of.