On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:13 PM, rumble wrote: > then it displays a "no entry" icon (circle with > a slash through it).
> i rechecked the specs on the g5 dual 2.3 and it says it can run > panther, and i checked to see if the cd/dvd drive was blessed by > apple/ > able to boot a system disk. I don't know where you saw this information, but MacTracker says the Power Mac G5 (Early 2005) shipped with Tiger 10.4 (8A428), and this generally means that it won't work with any earlier system software, which would include all Panther 10.3. I own the identical Power Mac G5 dual 2.3 (Early 2005) and just tried to boot a Retail Panther 10.3 Installation CD (the black CD with the white "X" on it) and got identical results to yours. Further, my G5 is set to show verbose dialog in firmware so every startup has the verbose dialog, and this didn't show any dialog whatsoever, only the slash symbol you saw. This means it's not even beginning to boot at all. My G5 has a different optical unit than yours, so I'm nearly 100% certain your optical unit isn't the problem at all. I believe you've made an error, and that the dual 2.3 G5 is limited to Tiger and Leopard, and will not run anything prior to Tiger, or Snow Leopard. You'll have to make due with two partitions and Tiger and Leopard only. I'm unaware of software that's "Panther only", although I'm sure it's possible. If you're hard core, I'd bet it's possible to hack a Panther installation to boot on this G5, and the required changes would probably be very minimal, but again, why go to the hassle if you can get your applications to run on Tiger? What Panther specific applications are you worried about? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
