Sorbet Leopard rev1.5 loaded on the iMac G5. I didn’t have any dual-layers to get 10.5.8 retail DVD on here, so I pulled the 10.5.4 DMG from Macintosh Garden. I tried a later ISO but for some reason could not get the image to be bootable even through Toast 9. Thankfully the Apple servers still serve the updates for 10.4 and 10.5, so I was able to upgrade the Leopard installation to 10.5.8.

Then I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the Sorbet Leopard DMG from my PowerBook G4 (also running Sorbet), via Target Disk mode booted on the iMac G5 to the local Leopard install. Running a Permissions Repair through Disk Utility now and we’ll reboot and cross our fingers we’re good to go.

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