Hi Walter, If you have the full retail version of Leopard, then you should be able to boot from the install disk and do the erase and install.
BUT many of the G4 iMacs (eg mine!) are not supported for Leopard (processor too slow) - in which case you will not be able to install from the Leopard disk. If your iMac is officially too slow there are ways around this - Google is your friend - but you may find the performance very sluggish. Also, if you are having hard disk problems, I would make sure the erased disk checks out OK before spending too much time on set-up. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/09 12:09 PM, F.W. Hänel at whae...@iinet.net.au wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a G4 lamp shade iMac which requires erase and install because > of some corruption > on its hard disk. Have not been able to solve it with Disk warrior or > Disk > utility. The screen remains grey. > > The iMac came with Panther V 10.3 and was running Tiger until it > failed last week. > Can I install Leopard after the erase or do I have to start with > Panther then upgrade > to Tiger and then to Leopard ? > > Looking for help, > > thanks > > Walter > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
