[Cube] question RE: Leopard Install

[Bill Fox]

Using an external FireWire drive and Carbon Copy Cloner worked on the  
stock and upgraded Cube. Stock Cube is not so slow.

Bill

On Oct 27, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Bill Fox wrote:

> Tried it both ways-no joy. Get the message that "Install Failed--The  
> Installer could not validate the contents of the 'BaseSystem'  
> package." on the upgraded 1.4GHz Cube and a can't install on your  
> Mac error message for the stock 450MHz Cube.
>
> Someone will have to figure out a hack. Going to try again by  
> installing Leopard on an external FW drive attached to my CPU- 
> upgraded 12" PowerBook G4 (originally 867MHz now 1.4GHz) then  
> booting the Cubes with it. If it boots then I'll clone the external  
> to the internal and try again.
>
> Results of the latter to come, stay tuned....
>
> Bill
>
> On Oct 27, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Seth Maynard wrote:
>
>> Were you upgrading or did you format the hard drive completely? If  
>> you just upgraded, try formating the drive and then installing  
>> 10.5. I hope you had a back-up of your stuff.
>> On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Bill Fox wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, I could never get any of the later (didn't try early)  
>>> developer releases of 10.5 to even install on my Cube w/stock  
>>> 450MHz CPU or w/1.4GHz PowerLogix CPU upgrade.
>>>
>>> I'll be trying the final build (9a581) over the weekend.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Oct 26, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Gary Heartsfield wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all
>>>>
>>>> Just tried to install Leopard on my cube with 1.7 powerlogix.
>>>>
>>>> All was fine ( 40 mins )  then on restart the cube will begin to  
>>>> load and instantly power off.
>>>>
>>>> Now it will not boot from disk 10.5
>>>>
>>>> Just powers off like the shut down was pushed, or pulled the plug.
>>>>
>>>> Can start with option key and select the HD and it takes off then  
>>>> 2 seconds later act of the power was pulled in a nice way. ??
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks