| Dead G5-Dual display advice? [message #24133] |
Tue, 13 November 2012 10:42  |
spilrules
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My G5 tower recently bit the dust and I have been running on my powerbook
G4 1.67mhz but can only run one of my two 20" cinema displays previously
employed by the G5, The laptop only has one DVI connection. I am using
the 15" screen on the laptop as well as one of the 20" monitors, but would
like to run both of them instead. Is this possible? Do I need an adapter
(if there is such a thing)?
Secondly, is it possible to take the hard drive out of the G5, put it into
an external firewire housing and then be able to boot from it so I could
run OS 10.5 instead of the 10.4 that is on the powerbook? If this is not
possible, can I load OS 10.5 onto the drive in the powerbook without
removing OS 10.4 so I could boot up in either system, or would I need to
start anew and partition the drive? It has a 250GB HD, not the standard 80
that came with it originally and there is plenty of available space. As
always, thanks for any advice!
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| Re: Dead G5-Dual display advice? [message #24134 is a reply to message #24133] |
Tue, 13 November 2012 11:24  |
Bruce Johnson
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On Nov 13, 2012, at 8:42 AM, spilrules <tom@tomstock.us> wrote:
> My G5 tower recently bit the dust and I have been running on my powerbook G4 1.67mhz but can only run one of my two 20" cinema displays previously employed by the G5, The laptop only has one DVI connection. I am using the 15" screen on the laptop as well as one of the 20" monitors, but would like to run both of them instead. Is this possible? Do I need an adapter (if there is such a thing)?
Not really. There's things like this: <http://www.iogear.com/product/GUC2020DW6/> it's needs USB 2.0; so you would need a USB 2.0 PC card to connect it with. They claim OS X 10.4 and higher support, no mention of PPC support.
> Secondly, is it possible to take the hard drive out of the G5, put it into an external firewire housing and then be able to boot from it so I could run OS 10.5 instead of the 10.4 that is on the powerbook?
Yeah, certainly. SATA-FW external cases are pricey, but OWC sells good ones.
> If this is not possible, can I load OS 10.5 onto the drive in the powerbook without removing OS 10.4 so I could boot up in either system, or would I need to start anew and partition the drive? It has a 250GB HD, not the standard 80 that came with it originally and there is plenty of available space. As always, thanks for any advice!
Ironically yes, but you need 10.5 to do it :-)
< http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitysize.htm>
So get the FW enclosure, boot from it, partition your 10.4 drive and install 10.5 on the TiBook...
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| Re: Dead G5-Dual display advice? [message #24135 is a reply to message #24134] |
Tue, 13 November 2012 14:44 |
Valter Prahlad
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Il giorno 13-11-2012 17:24, Bruce Johnson ha scritto:
>> can I load OS 10.5 onto the drive in the powerbook
>> without removing OS 10.4 so I could boot up in either system
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> Ironically yes, but you need 10.5 to do it :-)
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> < http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitysize.htm>
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> So get the FW enclosure, boot from it, partition your 10.4 drive and install
> 10.5 on the TiBook...
Am I wrong or, if the OP has an OSX 10.5 disc, he could boot from it and do
the partitioning that way?
(with no need for the external enclosure)
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| Re: Dead G5-Dual display advice? [message #24179 is a reply to message #24135] |
Tue, 13 November 2012 17:24 |
Bruce Johnson
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On Nov 13, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Valter Prahlad <valter.prahlad@fastwebnet.it> wrote:
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> Am I wrong or, if the OP has an OSX 10.5 disc, he could boot from it and do
> the partitioning that way?
> (with no need for the external enclosure)
Probably; I expected that the "software and data on the G5's disk" was as important in the transfer as the OS.
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