Leopard from MacBook disks???

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Hello all,

Is is possible to get leopard from the disks that came with my MacBook? I have a 2.4 unibody MacBook and as far as I know, the first disk only has leopard on and then the second came with iLife '08 on it.

I need to get a copy of Leopard for my girlfriends PowerBook which needs Leopard reinstalling.

So if anyone can help me out, it would be great!

Jon
 
Won't work AFAIK.

Tried using a 10.4 disks from a iBook on a PowerMac G4 and it said the disk was for iBooks only.

Give it a try but I'd guess it won't work!
 
The disk your talking about is tailored for your machine, don't think it is possible to get a retail copy of Leopard off the disk.
 
Just go and buy a Leopard Upgrade Retail DVD and will upgrade the install to 10.5.

All of the disks that you get with your machine are tailored for the model of the machine it comes with.

ie iMac Leopard disk won't work on MacBook, mini, MacPro etc.
 
If you're clever, you can make it work. For example, if you were to put a Macbook drive into a USB cradle and build it on a Mac Pro using the Mac Pro recovery disks, it will work perfectly when it goes back into the Macbook.

However, in the case discussed above, you only have one licence for Leopard, the one which came with your Macbook so if you were to blag it then you'd have an unlicenced installation on the Powerbook and I'm sure we don't condone software piracy here.
 
macfb said:
my girlfriends PowerBook which needs Leopard reinstalling.
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Did the PowerBook come with Leopard pre-installed? ;)

All OS X retail discs contain a PPC and Intel binary, so you only need to get the ddisc to reinstall, however, you cannot use a machine-specific disk.

Apple will sell you replacement disks, but only containing the OS that shipped with the machine originally.

Hope that helps.
 
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