OK well im a novice to mac. I was able to obtain Mac OSX Leopard. My friend who has a iMac G5 wanted to upgrade to the new leopard. SO i went over there today to try an upgrade the OS.
I tried to install osx leopard but it came up with errors. Anyway I was told to take the Leopard image and in disc utility to a restoer.
So In Disk Utility I went to RESTORE, for SOURCE I put the osx leopard "sparseimage" file . And for the Destination I made it the Mac HD. I figured that it would create another image file. BUT it did not, what it did was, it made the MAC HDD the Leopard Installer DVD. So now I restarted the Mac and it keeps trying to load the Leopard because it is acting as the Leopard install. While the restore was "COPYING" i saw that in FINDER under the harddrive, an icon was created called OSX Leopard install DVD.
Is there any way I can somehow fix this. I cannot even get on to the desktop.
I tried to install osx leopard but it came up with errors. Anyway I was told to take the Leopard image and in disc utility to a restoer.
So In Disk Utility I went to RESTORE, for SOURCE I put the osx leopard "sparseimage" file . And for the Destination I made it the Mac HD. I figured that it would create another image file. BUT it did not, what it did was, it made the MAC HDD the Leopard Installer DVD. So now I restarted the Mac and it keeps trying to load the Leopard because it is acting as the Leopard install. While the restore was "COPYING" i saw that in FINDER under the harddrive, an icon was created called OSX Leopard install DVD.
Is there any way I can somehow fix this. I cannot even get on to the desktop.
Sounds almost worse than installing Windows on Parallels.
. I had a flashback to the 20th century, to the past millennium in fact, when starting up from the install disk (Mac Os 9) would actually mount the HD too
, and let you do whatever you wanted to it, like trashing stuff you didn't want. I know I shouldn't, but there are times I miss Mac Os 9 (and 8, and 7). Between Applescript and a few other apps, it allowed the user to tweak the system a lot more than now. Ah, the days of start-up screens, and start-up movies, and changing all your icons directly in the system. I changed the AOL turning "beach ball" into a BMW emblem
which was really entertaining in the days when connecting on dial-up with a 9,600 baud modem required more entertaining than anybody could tolerate now... Of course, there were the crashes and the restarts that would take 15 minutes, and the extension conflicts...OK, enough nostalgia.