Hi,
I have a question. I have a friend who bought a new imac with Leopard and now I want to install Leopard over Tiger.
But after the language selection it says it can't be installed on this computer.
I've read Leopard can only be installed on 1 mac, otherwise you have to choose the family pack.

But is there a way to pass this by? To "crack" the dvd?
That it will work for me to? Or do i have to download a 6G torrent from somewhere, not knowing if it will work?

Thanks,

Anyone can help?

Every model of Mac has its own install disk and it cannot be used with other models of Mac. You need to download Retail version of Leopard from the internet and install it.

There are multiple things that you can look at...

One, you can run a firewire cable between the two computers and install in Target Disk Mode.

Two, you can copy the DVD to your hard disk and alter a particular file that defines the machine ID.
I do not remember which file this is off the top of my head, and no longer have my original installation DVD as to check for this, however I am sure that it has been discussed here on these forums. I am certain that it was one of the plists in the OSInstallation.mpkg file though.

Three, you can "obtain" an official installation DVD, as that does not have the Machine ID check.

~Adrian