I just got my hands on a PowerMac G5 7,3, it has MacOS 10.5 on it, i'm looking for the MacOS 10.4 for this computer, I've tried all over to get a working copy, but been unable to get it going. I need to run classic MacOS 9 on this system, for older software i want to run on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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PowerMac G5 7,3 MacOS 10.4 nstall disk
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I'm not sure which one it is, The DMG you mentions does not work on it. I run into kernal panics wit the DMG and the retail disk.
I'll look again when I finish the downloads, I browsed Mac Garden for the 2005/PCIe (which if I searched correctly should be what the 7,3 is) install disks and couldn't find them.
10.5 would be a slam dunk on that machine, but wouldn't run classic.
If you can swap that machine, or find something else to run whatever you need in Classic, that's what I'd do -- 10.5 on that G5 will run well and will make much better use of that hardware than any Classic app will.
This is still, I realize, not what you asked, but any software that runs well on a G4 on OS 9 will probably run better as a newer version on a G5, especially those last-gen ones, especially-2 if it happens to be a Quad.
10.5 would be a slam dunk on that machine, but wouldn't run classic.
If you can swap that machine, or find something else to run whatever you need in Classic, that's what I'd do -- 10.5 on that G5 will run well and will make much better use of that hardware than any Classic app will.
This is still, I realize, not what you asked, but any software that runs well on a G4 on OS 9 will probably run better as a newer version on a G5, especially those last-gen ones, especially-2 if it happens to be a Quad.
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