I'm on a 1.8 GHz PowerPC g5. I had been running 10.3.5 (or whatever the free upgrades from there would have been) until recently when I upgraded to 10.5.6. in hopes of speeding up web browsing. It didn't work (the problem I think is how I surf...opening lots of windows at once). In addition, now my peripherals only show up on the desktop (not in the finder) and some of my older software is acting funny. I have Quark 6 and Adobe CS2, which I'm reading will work but have issues, and I don't want to upgrade. Can I just use the original disk that came with the computer to revert back to 10.3? I don't want to do a clean install and I'm concerned about losing data...I have my time machine backups--and I know my computer won't automatically backup anymore (maybe there's inexpensive software that will do the same thing for me?). I also have disks for 10.4.8 that came with my laptop, but I'm reading about issues with Illustrator and it's just not worth it for me.
Downgrading from 10.5.6 to 10.3.5 or...
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ElDiabloConCaca
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There is no "easy" way to downgrade.
The simplest and "easiest" way is to back up all your data (Time Machine won't work here because you're abandoning an OS X version with support for Time Machine -- unless you're REALLY good with the Terminal and symlinks), clean-install OS X 10.3, reinstall applications that you need, and restore data that you need.
You can't use the 10.4.8 discs that came with your laptop to install 10.4.8 on your G5. Those discs are system-specific and will only install on your laptop (or an identical model laptop).
You can create a "clone" of your hard drive to another hard drive using freely available software like Carbon Copy Cloner. That would give you a full backup of data stored on your boot drive, allowing you to cleanly and "safely" install 10.3 again.
The simplest and "easiest" way is to back up all your data (Time Machine won't work here because you're abandoning an OS X version with support for Time Machine -- unless you're REALLY good with the Terminal and symlinks), clean-install OS X 10.3, reinstall applications that you need, and restore data that you need.
You can't use the 10.4.8 discs that came with your laptop to install 10.4.8 on your G5. Those discs are system-specific and will only install on your laptop (or an identical model laptop).
You can create a "clone" of your hard drive to another hard drive using freely available software like Carbon Copy Cloner. That would give you a full backup of data stored on your boot drive, allowing you to cleanly and "safely" install 10.3 again.