Yes, you could use an external DVD drive or even another Mac.
Suposedly it can be done via a disc image, but I'm not familiar enough
to provide any input on this. If using an external DVD drive, instead
of holding the c key down, you would choose it as though it were
another bootable drive or partition.
Scott
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On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi all,
Here's Apple's Official web page repeating the Technical specs that
appear in the earlier post of AppleInsider specs:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
The DVD drive is "for instatllation", so I wonder whether this can be
done from a disk image or another connected computer or disk drive
for people who don't have DVD drives (for example, for laptop users
who meet all other specs, but who only have CD drives and not
superdrives).
Cheers,
Esther
On Friday, October 19, 2007, at 02:27AM, "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi all,
Jane asked whether her (1.2 GHz) G4 iBook would support Leopard
and Will and David wrote:
On Thursday, October 18, 2007, at 02:15PM, "David Poehlman" wrote:
does it have firewire? how much ram?
On Oct 18, 2007, at 7:22 PM, will lomas wrote:
yes but what speed
i believe it has to be over 800 mhz to support leopard
On 19 Oct 2007, at 00:21, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
It's an iBook G4.
Jane
AppleInsider posted (unofficially) that Leopard would require
a G4 or G5 processor, 867 MHz or better, a DVD-drive,
built-in firewire, at least 512MB of RAM (more preferred),
and at least 9GB of disk space. The article is at:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/09/24/updated_leopard_requirements_to_exclude_800mhz_systems.html
and the discussion concerned the recent bump up to 867 MHz
rather than 800 MHz. Here's an excerpt from the September 24
article:
<start quote>
According to people familiar with the matter, engineers for the
company recently determined that Leopard installs on 800MHz PowerPC
G4 systems ran "too slow." Support for those systems was
subsequently pulled from the most recent pre-release copies of
Leopard, which inform testers that the software "cannot be
installed" on those computers.
Instead, Leopard will now require Macs with "an Intel processor or
a PowerPC G4 (867 MHz or faster) or G5 processor." Other system
requirements include a DVD drive, built-in FireWire, at least 512MB
of RAM (additional recommended), and at least 9GB of hard disk space.
Though seemingly mild, the 67MHz increase will exclude a handful of
Mac system, namely the 800MHz PowerBook G4 (Titanium), 800MHz
PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver), 800MHz iMac G4, 800MHz iBook G4, and
800MHz eMac.
<end quote>
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Esther
