Monday, July 28, 2014

How to boot PowerPC Macs VIA USB

For those of you who are tired of staying on OS X Tiger, I will help you then. This tutorial will show you how to get Mac OS X Leopard on your computer VIA USB

Step 1: get a bittorrent (I recommend uTorrent, here is the download link: ttp://www.oldapps.com/mac/utorrent.php?old_utorrent=9844)

Step 2: go to: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4687503/Mac_OS_X_Leopard_10.5.6_Full_Retail and click on Get This Torrent. The large download buttons are just fakes.

Step 3: Download the torrent

Step 4: Mount the image you just downloaded

Step 5: Open disk utility

Step 6: Plug in a USB Drive (8gbs minimum)

Step 7: Select your USB Drive

Step 8: Go to partition

Step 9: Click Volume Scheme and select 1 partition

Step 10: Name it: Mac OS X, for format, select Mac OS Extended Journaled

Step 11: for options, select Apple Partition Map (this is very very important)

Step 12: After, click on restore, drag your .dmg file to Source and drag your Mac OS X usb drive to destination. 

Step 13: Click restore and wait 40~ minutes

Step 14: Restart your computer while pressing ALT-COMMAND-O-F

Step 15: You will have a white display, release what you are pressing

Step 16: type boot ud:,\\:tbxi and Mac OS X should start booting :)


If you have any questions please comment and I'll happily answer :)
Have fun with Mac OS X Leopard!!

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