Thanks Sam, will try that next time I have access to the iMac.
Nick
On 24 Jun 2010, at 20:09, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:

> Try holding alt at startup to choose the startup disk, then choose the tiger 
> cd/DVD
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sam
> 
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> On 24 Jun 2010, at 19:01, Nicholas Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I'm actually also in the hunt to borrow a set of iMac g5 with iSight install 
>> disks.
>> I posted about 10 days ago that a friend's 12yr old daughter had caused a 
>> kernel panic by starting up iTunes during a software update.
>> All attempts so far (install Tiger CD holding down C key and try to access 
>> Disk Utility, PRAM reset, hold in power button with power turned off for 30 
>> secs etc) have failed and the same screen keeps coming back with white text 
>> on a black b/g with request to restart the machine.
>> Apple would no longer look at this age machine apparently so it would have 
>> to be 3rd party but before I go down that route, it's probably worth a 
>> request to see if anyone could lend the discs (iMac with iSight G5). Postage 
>> would be paid both ways (I'm now in Wiltshire).
>> Nick
>> On 22 Jun 2010, at 11:39, NOEL SIDEBOTTOM wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi everyone.
>>> 
>>> As I raised the question in the first place I suppose I'd better contribute 
>>> here.
>>> 
>>> I asked if anyone could lend / sell / give me a copy of 10.5 for my PPC 
>>> iMac G5 as a starting point in acquiring the software.
>>>  
>>> I must admit I hadn't fully thought through the ethics of using unpaid-for 
>>> software within a responsible Mac group but having done so I can see that I 
>>> have crossed  line. I suppose I had assumed that as it is no longer the 
>>> current OS it was somehow less of moral aberration!   I would not ask 
>>> anyone for access to their 10.6 discs for example (not that I could use 
>>> them on a PPC Mac!).
>>> 
>>> The 10.5 over the counter software is available to buy through Amazon but 
>>> is still going to cost about £85 which, as I m unemployed with little spare 
>>> income, is a significant amount.
>>> 
>>> Anyway... don't we all have grey moral/ethical areas in our daily 
>>> life-tapestry?...
>>> 
>>> I'm happy to abide by the administrator's raised eyebrow on this matter.
>>> 
>>> Noel Sidebottom
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> On 22 June 2010 11:12, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> There's a distinction between license  and 'possible'. The disks that cone 
>>> with a new machine usually won't install on a different machine but often 
>>> they work on a similar machine. They will always allow you to install to an 
>>> external disk, including another mac in target disk mode afaik.
>>> 
>>> It's reasonable in my opinion to ask about these things and ask for help in 
>>> the event that disks have been misplaced etc. I also think it's not a big 
>>> deal for people to ask for legacy OS help forthe most part (you can't buy 
>>> tiger now). But blatantly calling for freebies of stuff that can be 
>>> purchased easily (and the poster verifies this!) is perhaps...pushing it 
>>> rather too far...
>>> 
>>> From my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 22 Jun 2010, at 10:36, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> >
>>> > Your discs are useful to you if they came with the computer or you bought 
>>> > them.
>>> >
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