> I purchased Tiger and, expectedly, it came on DVD. I have a 700m Mhz,
> G3 dual USB iBook. I tried to install Tiger on my external DVD drive,
> but no luck. I couldn't select it as my startup drive in System
> Preferences.
Do you have an iPod? You can use it to install Tiger on your iBook.
I believe I saved this from one of the major Mac sites (MacFixIt, etc).
^^^^^
Turn your iPod into a bootable Tiger installation disk. Here's how:
1. Make a backup copy of your iPod if necessary (it will be erased in
the next step!)
2. Using Disk Utility, format (Erase) the iPod.
3. Use the Restore feature in Disk Utility to create an image of the
Tiger DVD on your iPod (drag the DVD into the source textbox; drag your iPod
into the destination textbox).
4. You can then plug your iPod in any Mac and launch the Install
Tiger software, let it reboot, and follow the instructions to install it!
When you're done, you might want to re-erase the iPod, and restore the
latest iPod Software on your iPod.
(Yep, did this with my iPod mini for my wife's 500MHz G3. Something that's
worth mentioning, is that this method (from any Firewire drive, not just an
iPod) is better than installing to the computer in question via target disc
mode. The installation routine makes many decisions based on the hardware
that the installer is being run on, and of course, is blind to any hardware
surrounding the drive if you turn your iMac/eMac/iBook in target mode.
And AFAIK, you won't even have a usable install if you try to go from one
processor family to another. IOW, if you have a G5 and do an install on your
G4 iBook in target mode, your installation won't work.)
^^^^^
ciao, bob
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