Booting from a OS 10.5 disc on imac

[Chiefcrowe]

hi,
does anyone know if i can boot an older imac (which has 10.2) with a 10.5 disc?
I need to use the disk utility to wipe the drive.

thanks!

 

[aphex]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/

General requirements

* Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor

minimum system requirements

* 512MB of memory
* DVD drive for installation
* 9GB of available disk space
* Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
* Some features require Apple's .Mac service; fees apply.

So its gonna depend on which iMac it is.

 

[Tyranicus]

If the older mac has 10.2... I am not sure if it will boot or not. The next question is, is this a retail Leopard disk, or one that came with a Mac? If the latter then it will not work. You could however hook the two up over firewire and boot the imac into target disk mode, service it that way.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Yes it will work. You probably can use a Tiger disc if you wanted to.

 

[bearxor]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure as long as there's PPC binaries on the disc, that the disc will boot, but may not install 10.5 because of sys requirements.