I have a IMAC G5 10.3.9 and I bought online OEM disk from another IMAC G5 10.4, when I bought them the only requierment was that it needs to be an IMAC G5, well here I'm trying to do it mysef before I call this people...When I turn it on holding the C everything seems ok it even asks the language preferences; and then is when this message comes this sofware cannot be run in this computer...Please help me with this...
update from 10.3.9 to 10.4 installing OEM disk on my IMAC G5 from another IMAC G5
- Thread starter karoltek
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The disc set you got was shipped with a different generation of iMac than you have (or at least with a later version of Mac OS X than yours).
It will not work.
The install disc sets shipped with a Mac will only install on the same type of Macs it was shipped with, and within the same type and the same OS version - if something shipped with a specific build of e.g. 10.4.4 you will not be able to install anything earlier than that version, nor any later OEM version of anything on it.
Get the full retail version to upgrade to 10.4 (or 10.5).
Those discs are black.
It will not work.
The install disc sets shipped with a Mac will only install on the same type of Macs it was shipped with, and within the same type and the same OS version - if something shipped with a specific build of e.g. 10.4.4 you will not be able to install anything earlier than that version, nor any later OEM version of anything on it.
Get the full retail version to upgrade to 10.4 (or 10.5).
Those discs are black.
DeltaMac
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Just to clarify the response - The iMac G5 shipped in 3 different models. The grey restore disks from each model won't install on the others, even though all are G5 iMacs.
The first generation of iMac G5s did not originally ship with 10.4, which was released at about the time the 2nd generation (known as Ambient Light Sennsor model) started to ship.
The recommendation to find a set of black install disks is what will work for you.
The first generation of iMac G5s did not originally ship with 10.4, which was released at about the time the 2nd generation (known as Ambient Light Sennsor model) started to ship.
The recommendation to find a set of black install disks is what will work for you.