My DVD drive was broken on old Power MAC G5.
3 product ratings - Apple Power Mac G5 2GHz 'Cypher' 11.2 A1117. 1TB & 250G HDs 1GB RAM, DVD/CD 64K. 691 5025 A,2Z,Power Mac G5. Mac OS X Install Disc 1. Disc v1.0 2005 (DVD) Operating System CD-ROMs. ISO images of the FreeBSD 1.0 release media for i386 processors. Nov 28, 2018 11/18. Eye 321 favorite 0 comment 0. Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is also the first Mac OS release since the introduction of System 7.1.2 that does not support the PowerPC architecture, as Apple now intends to focus on its current line of Intel-based products. Thus OS X supported PowerPC up to and including version 10.5 (Leopard). Announced in October 2005, the PowerMac G5 (late 2005) was the first PowerMac to ship with dual-core PowerPC G5 processors, and the last professional Mac desktop to use PowerPC processors. It also included faster bus and memory speeds, larger hard drives on the low and middle-end models, better graphics cards, and PCI Express expansion slots.
Im not interested in finding replacement because it’s anyway obsolete but i need to install Mac OSX.
Lucky G5 have Open Firmware that allow booting up straight from USB flash drive and take install painlessly!
First You need to create RAW image of Your Mac OSX DVD into file.
Than using for example DD on linux put it straight to USB flash-drive.
There many tutorials about that topic.
I have Microsoft keyboard while starting up Your mac press and hold four keys at once:
Windows key + alt + o + f
until You get a gray screen with letters “Welcome to Open Firmware” and command prompt.
type
boot ud:3,:tbxi
and press enter
after while You will get standard installer just like on DVD.
ud:3 is device id, to not confuse Yourself remove all USB storage devices except that one You want boot from.
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Here is mine video in real live: