PLZHELP! installing Leopard that came with MB PRo on MacBook
February 2nd, 2020
I bought a used MacBook, the 2006 model with 1.83ghz and firewire, and i got it cheap cause the guy had lost all the recovery cds and so on, he had the warranty but thats kinda useless when its expired… Anyway, naturally i want to format and install a new copy of the mac os x Leopard, so i borrowed it from a friend, he has a new Macbook pro and the MacOS DVDs came along with it.
So far, by googling, i found out that the “recovery discs” that i borrowed from him, are locked to either a certain modelnumber, or certain hardware speccifications, so when i boot on the DVD, and choose Language, it says “this can not be installed on this computer” or some like that…..
Can ANYONE PLEASE help?!?! is there a way to bypass that? WITHOUT having to connect my MB to his MBPro, cause he lives far from here
any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks…. kind regards
The disks he gave you are not recovery disks, but in fact are the full copy of Leopard. However you are correct that the disks that he gave you will only work in a macbook pro as they are customized to the features of the specific product. There are a few threads on in the mac section that contain links to full downloads of the generic version of Mac OS X Leopard, which will work in any MAC computer.
Link: http://www.google.com?t=1757529&highlight=
Go to the thread posted above.
EDIT: Also mate this is the wrong place and it should have been posted in the Help Desk.
Moving ~ .
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thanks for the info.
i didnt notice there was another section called help sorry guys,.
well i am downloading the mac os now, but i doubt that i will be able to install it since i only have a singlelayer dvd burner, and an USB external harddrive… can u see how it would be possible for me to install it?! should i delete this thread now and make a new one in help section? ill just wait for next reply, then do it
No its been moved so everything is great. You can install from an external drive and there are instructions on here somewhere. You do need to have the drive formatted to mac os x extended journaled though.
MacOS X MacOS X 10.5 Leopard SingleDVD
http://www.google.com?t=1290103&highlight=
oki, thanks alot u guys… ill give this SingleDVD a shot first… hopefully itll work fine like the “full version” of the OS
appreciate ur help
MacOS X MacOS X 10.5 Leopard SingleDVD
http://www.google.com?t=1290103&highlight=
one last question, since my macbook has no dvdburner, i have to burn the .dmg file in WINDOWS, should i convert it to an iso first?!
you can convert DMG to ISO with MagicISO and burn the image on your PC…
gahh, got a premium account on rapidshare, but i just exceeded my daily download limit, just when i was almost through finishing downloading the single layer MAc LEopard OS
is it possble to crack rapidshare somehow? lol else i have to wait for 2morrow to be able to use my mac
wee those heaven links inside this forum are to great use
you can convert DMG to ISO with MagicISO and burn the image on your PC...
sorry to “disturb” u guys again… i FINALLY got the single layerdvd mac os downloaded, and i used this guide to convert the dmg to iso with magiciso:
http://www.magiciso.com/FAQ/FAQ0011.htm
i burned it successfully, but when i put the DVD inside the macbook, it just spits it out again after like 10 seconds…. does that mean its not bootable? or what might be the problem?
thanks in advance…. been messing with this for days, still no os my mac