I have an imac with a 1.6 GHz powerPC G5 processor, the imac is 2-3 yrs. old. It has the operating system that came with, i.e., Mac OS X 10.3 panther.
Today, I bought Leopard for this imac. When I try to install nothing seems to happen. When I insert the disc, i double-click install Mac OS X in the first window that comes up, and in the next window the only option is to restart, so I restart it. Yet when the computer restarts, it begins to start up normally, i.e., it first goes to the grey screen with the apple logo then goes to a blue screen, where the login page would normally appear, but instead after the blank blue screen, the screen goes gray and the 'busy' color wheel appears (meanwhile the cd drive goes nuts and makes all this noise). I waited for an hour and thirty minutes for the computer to do something, but NOTHING!!!!!! it shouldn't take this long to install anything from a cd.
I called apple tech support and got no help in the hour or so of being on the phone with them. Basically just kept getting transfered from one person to the next and wasted all the time explaining the situation over and over again. Before I knew it i had to go to work.
I only got leopard because my old ipod crapped out and the new one i got said I needed a newer OS program.
Anyone have any idea how to install leopard on my computer? Anyone encountered the same program? I'd be happy to return leopard if I could just use my new ipod with the old OS, so if anyone knows how to get around that, it would also be helpful.
I'm really frustrated, thanks for any help
Today, I bought Leopard for this imac. When I try to install nothing seems to happen. When I insert the disc, i double-click install Mac OS X in the first window that comes up, and in the next window the only option is to restart, so I restart it. Yet when the computer restarts, it begins to start up normally, i.e., it first goes to the grey screen with the apple logo then goes to a blue screen, where the login page would normally appear, but instead after the blank blue screen, the screen goes gray and the 'busy' color wheel appears (meanwhile the cd drive goes nuts and makes all this noise). I waited for an hour and thirty minutes for the computer to do something, but NOTHING!!!!!! it shouldn't take this long to install anything from a cd.
I called apple tech support and got no help in the hour or so of being on the phone with them. Basically just kept getting transfered from one person to the next and wasted all the time explaining the situation over and over again. Before I knew it i had to go to work.
I only got leopard because my old ipod crapped out and the new one i got said I needed a newer OS program.
Anyone have any idea how to install leopard on my computer? Anyone encountered the same program? I'd be happy to return leopard if I could just use my new ipod with the old OS, so if anyone knows how to get around that, it would also be helpful.
I'm really frustrated, thanks for any help