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Sorbet Leopard - Your Power Mac Unleashed

Whacko !!!
..fired up my iBook, checked 'About this Mac'.. stated 10.4..?
Ha - then remembered I needed to do a start up disk change.
Reboot - and there it is: 10.5.9.

After a day with a dental appointment in the morning, then a wasted afternoon dealing with the IRD (tax dept) and the local City Council..it feels like I just got a new toy!!!
Xmas came early this year!!

Thank you Z!!..and all the others whos input guided me on the way!!
Bloody Marvellous!!
 
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I'm sorry for my english

powerbook g4 with Sorbet Leopard

1 download Sorbet Leopard on Mac mini g4
2 unzip Sorbet Leopard
3 mount Sorbet Leopard
4 connect mac mini g4 with firewire to powerbook g4
5 turn on the powerbook with the letter T
6 on the mac mini partition the powerbook with only one apf partition
7 CCC Version 3.4.7 downloads
8 Sorbet Leopard source disk
9 powerbook g4 destination
10 wait 1 hour
11 shut down the powerbook reboot and we will have only one partition with Sorbet Leopard
 
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When I go to run the 'system tuneup'.. it asks for a password.
If I type in 'whoami' it responds: Mac
Ive not encountered this before. Is there a generic password for Mac ?
I normally create an administrator with password then a user as myself which I would normally log in as. (..old linux habit.) Have not yet done that.
 
attilio said:
I'm sorry for my english

powerbook g4 with Sorbet Leopard

1 download Sorbet Leopard on Mac mini g4
2 unzip Sorbet Leopard
3 mount Sorbet Leopard
4 connect mac mini g4 with firewire to powerbook g4
5 turn on the powerbook with the letter T
6 on the mac mini partition the powerbook with only one apf partition
7 CCC Version 3.4.7 downloads
8 Sorbet Leopard source disk
9 powerbook g4 destination
10 wait 1 hour
11 shut down the powerbook reboot and we will have only one partition with Sorbet Leopard
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Attilo - did you create a second partition for Sorbet?
 
mortlocli said:
When I go to run the 'system tuneup'.. it asks for a password.
If I type in 'whoami' it responds: Mac
Ive not encountered this before. Is there a generic password for Mac ?
I normally create an administrator with password then a user as myself which I would normally log in as. (..old linux habit.) Have not yet done that.
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Aha - so it tis!!
Ta matey!!
 
mortlocli said:
When I go to run the 'system tuneup'.. it asks for a password.
If I type in 'whoami' it responds: Mac
Ive not encountered this before. Is there a generic password for Mac ?
I normally create an administrator with password then a user as myself which I would normally log in as. (..old linux habit.) Have not yet done that.
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Make sure you read the guide on the desktop after the restore.. the password was in there.

I had an issue with the tune up script, there was an error about a missing public folder of some kind. Re-ran it and I think it was doing something, but couldn't tell as there wasn't any verbose indicators that something was happening. Looked in activity monitor and no CPU or disk use... restarted and read the script to see what it was designed to do, and I'm now repairing permissions via disk utility. Lots of warnings about files that have been modified and won't be repaired, but I assume that's part of making Sorbet what it is. Will let it do it's thing.
 
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s4mb4r4m4 said:
Make sure you read the guide on the desktop after the restore.. the password was in there.

I had an issue with the tune up script, there was an error about a missing public folder of some kind. Re-ran it and I think it was doing something, but couldn't tell as there wasn't any verbose indicators that something was happening. Looked in activity monitor and no CPU or disk use... restarted and read the script to see what it was designed to do, and I'm now repairing permissions via disk utility. Lots of warnings about files that have been modified and won't be repaired, but I assume that's part of making Sorbet what it is. Will let it do it's thing.
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oh silly me... just read down a little bit more to see wot was next..and there is the password.
 
s4mb4r4m4 said:
Make sure you read the guide on the desktop after the restore.. the password was in there.

I had an issue with the tune up script, there was an error about a missing public folder of some kind. Re-ran it and I think it was doing something, but couldn't tell as there wasn't any verbose indicators that something was happening. Looked in activity monitor and no CPU or disk use... restarted and read the script to see what it was designed to do, and I'm now repairing permissions via disk utility. Lots of warnings about files that have been modified and won't be repaired, but I assume that's part of making Sorbet what it is. Will let it do it's thing.
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oh it was still running ok... lots of info about permissions and things that cant be unchanged. Dont see any error message about a missing file.
 
z970 said:
@ortlocli Apple Partition Map is the partitioning scheme that all Mac hardware used (regardless of the OS) from 10.0 until 10.6.
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APM is used on PPC (and maybe 68k, don’t have any to check) Macs. Intel Macs use the GPT (GUID Partition Table) scheme. So, for all intents and purposes, APM is the way to go for Sorbet Leopard.

z970 said:
Mac OS Extended (Journaled), or HFS+, is the file system (which would sit on top of the APM partitioning scheme) that Mac OS X used from (I believe) 10.2 until about 10.13.
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Right - it sits on top of APM on PPC Macs, but on top of GPT on Intel Macs.
 
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Tratkazir_the_1st said:
@z970
One really silly question. Can you made it as generic Leopard Installer, not image of preinstalled system? Your work is really great but I'm very suspicious about pre-made users & so on... Excuse me...
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How would that be any different? If you have security concerns over the image, installer does not add any guaranteed safety.
 
attilio said:
no one partition where it was installed
my hard drive is only 80gb
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my iBook only has 40 gb. I used an osx 10.4 install disk to boot up, but before installing, used disk utility to create a 20gb partition..ie partition one and two. Proceeded to install osx 10.4 onto partition 2, leaving partition one for Sorbet.
 
Ok I have an unexpected problem: Disk Utility on 10.6 PPC does not want to scan the image for restore. (My HDD is partitioned into two volumes, one has 10.5.8 and another 10A109, so I cannot use Disk Utility in 10.5.8, since I want to install 10.5.9 into that volume.)

Where to get needed version of CCC?
 
barracuda156 said:
Ok I have an unexpected problem: Disk Utility on 10.6 PPC does not want to scan the image for restore. (My HDD is partitioned into two volumes, one has 10.5.8 and another 10A109, so I cannot use Disk Utility in 10.5.8, since I want to install 10.5.9 into that volume.)

Where to get needed version of CCC?
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No luck with CCC, ver. 3.4.7 does not start in 10.6 PPC :rolleyes:
 
z970 said:
Sorbet Leopard v2 has been released! Alongside it comes a revised version of the original Full Changelog to better represent this version.
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There is some issue with DMG, Disk Utility does not want to scan it. I have booted into 10.5.8, and it’s the same. It says “Invalid argument”, whatever it means.
 
I had an issue where it wanted to scan it, but only if I chose to erase the disk. If I left that unchecked and just restored to a blank partition, it went fine.
 
s4mb4r4m4 said:
I had an issue where it wanted to scan it, but only if I chose to erase the disk. If I left that unchecked and just restored to a blank partition, it went fine.
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Ok will try that. Now I am getting this (in 10.5.8 and 10.6 PPC alike):
Screenshot 2021-11-02 19-03-02.png
 
I had that same error. Try to not scan it. Leave the box unchecked for erase destination, and just drag the image into the source, and your partition into the destination, and click restore.
 
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