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Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 1:35 pm
by Zanghfei
I have a question.
I got a disc leopard came of my macbook, can I upgrade my tiger using the Cd of my macbook?
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 1:43 pm
by kiddten
I think last time i checked you can, unless it is a specialized macbook install disk. is your tiger mac a macbook?
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:32 pm
by Zanghfei
Flaming Bunnies wrote:I think last time i checked you can, unless it is a specialized macbook install disk. is your tiger mac a macbook?
imac so won't work?
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:37 pm
by kiddten
depends. does the disk look like this?
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:48 pm
by Modzy
Normally the install disk that comes with the computer you buy will only work on that computer.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:51 pm
by Zanghfei
oh ok.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:52 pm
by Modzy
Worth a try, though. I believe it'll give you a message saying you cannot install, but you can give it a try.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 5:18 pm
by Fortune
The computer has to be an Intel Mac. PPC macs cant upgrade.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 5:17 pm
by Mike1122
yes it can... you can upgrade PPC to snow
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:01 pm
by Modzy
Mike1122 wrote:yes it can... you can upgrade PPC to snow
No you cannot. You can upgrade a PPC to Leopard, not Snow Leopard. Leopard was the last OS X to support PPC.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:34 pm
by nil
I think what Fortune was trying to get at is that the Macbook Leopard disc won't work with a PPC, which may be true.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:38 pm
by Modzy
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard requires wrote:
A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or Power PC G4 (867 MHz or faster) processor
512 MB memory or more
A DVD drive for installation
9 GB of available disk space or more
Some features require a compatible Internet service provider, fees may apply.
Some features require Apple's MobileMe service; fees apply.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:14 pm
by nil
Yes i know that. I was thinking about the specific installation disc that came with his Macbook.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:33 pm
by Modzy
nil wrote:Yes i know that. I was thinking about the specific installation disc that came with his Macbook.
It'll work in any Mac. You can use another Mac's install disk in different Macs, but, to my knowledge, you can only use the disk for Disk Utility and other applications in the Application menu. Trying to install will give you a message saying that the disk is not meant for the computer you're trying to install on, or some such.
Re: Leopard upgrade question.
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 2:15 pm
by Fortune
Hm. When i tried to install a leopard disc onto my G5 running tiger, it didnt work.
it was already used on my mom's mac, do you think that makes it unusable?