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Some time ago, I received a PowerBook G4 12 inch from a friend. As is healthy, the drive had been wiped, but being one to not keep too much old stuff, I didn’t have install media for Leopard (10.5). It went on the backburner for a while, but I recently received (back) some old storage devices which had been on ice in the WA Wheatbelt for about 10 years, and felt I had the right stuff together to give it a go again.

1. Downloaded 10.5.4 Leopard Installer from Archive.org
2. Attach 30GB PATA drive by PATA to USB2.0 dongle
3. Using 10.15 Catalina, partition drive with Apple Partition Map to 10GB+20GB partition
4. Mount Leopard Installer ISO previously download
5. Use ASR to restore contents of ISO to 10GB partition

bash-3.2$ sudo asr restore --source /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/ --target /Volumes/Emptied/ --erase
	Validating target...done
	Validating source...done
	Erase contents of /dev/disk3s3 (/Volumes/Emptied)? [ny]: y
	Validating sizes...done
	Restoring  ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
	Verifying  ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
	Restored target device is /dev/disk3s3.
	Remounting target volume...done

1. Try to boot Powerbook using PATA drive on USB dongle, failed
2. Move PATA drive from USB dongle to Sarotech Cutie FireWire caddy (originally purchased in Tokyo, 17 years ago), success
3. Install Leopard
4. Reboot, install 10.5.8 combo update
5. Reboot
6. All works! Yay