You forgot to tell us what G5 model you bought. We're pretty much in the dark until you say what hardware you are dealing with. I have had Panther and Tiger running on a dual 2 and a dual 2.5 no problem. Sounds like you have a bad optical drive - Superdrive - not so Super though. Yes G5 list is hosted by the same fine people at macintosh guy: G5 mailing list <G5 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Join here: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g5> Plain truth? If you can afford it and haven't yet pulled the trigger, buy a Quad. If not Buy a Dual 2.7 or 2.5 GHz G5. the rest are much weaker and not worth paying a little less for. -- Taylor Barcroft New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 barcroft (gizmo) kungax (Skype) kungag5 (iChat-AIM) On Feb 7, 2006, at 6:51 PM, jgk wrote: > Is there a G5 List similar to this G4 list? >