How to install Mac OSx from USB on a PowerPC Powerbook G4

Another option is to find a PowerPC version of a Linux distro. That will allow you to use the Mac without owning a copy of OS X.

Method to install OSX 10.5 Leopard on a Powerbook G4. Probably also usefull for other machines! If you have any questions let me know!

You need a big enough thumbdrive (at least 8GB) on which you'll restore the Mac OS you want to install using the procedure outlined here.

It's the perfect place. This is the PowerPC Mac forum on MacRumors and we're all about these old Macs. When you finally get an OS installed, ...

Create usb stick like this: sudo dd if=// of=/ bs=32768 conv=notrunc,noerror,sync · Put ...

As the PowerPC Macs never officially supported booting from USB, the USB device will not show up in the boot drive selector. You need to boot ...

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1 Answer 1 · Boot in the PowerBook OpenFirmware (the bootstrap that loads before Mac OS X) by pressing the Apple + Alt + O + F keys at the same ...

To boot any* PowerPC Mac (e.g. an iMac G3, an iBook G4, a PowerMac G5, etc...) from an USB stick or drive, FIRST know that if your model is ...

In this video, I go through the setup process for the Leopard installation of this PowerBook G4 If you enjoyed this video, please do leave a ...

Some PowerPC Macs are able to boot from a USB drive. Several, and perhaps all, of the G5s can if a USB 2 drive is used.

the DVD I just held the Option key and selected it... the USB you have to do Option+Open Apple+O+F to get into open firmware and then try to ...

Here's a somewhat off the cuff type video. I was going through some boxes of computer parts, and ran across the left over parts from the ...

PowerPC Macs can only be booted from the internal drive or from a Firewire drive. (sorry!) The newer Intel Macs can be booted from USB if ...

A PowerPC Mac with a G3, G4 or G5 processor · A modern intel Mac · A 4gb or larger (8gb recommended) USB stick · A copy of Mac OS 10.3, 10.4 or ...

Today we'll see how to install Mac OS X Leopard from a USB flash drive! We'll be using our PowerBook G4 Titanium 867Mhz, ...

This is a video about installing Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 on a PowerBook G4. There were no good tutorials on how to do this in 2015.

In this episode, we take a look at the PowerBook G4 again and we finally use the Tiger partition to install Mac OS Tiger!

... installing macOS 9 and setting it up to dual boot alongside macOS 10 on a supported PowerPC Mac. For this demo, I'm using a PowerBook G4 ...

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