On Apr 1, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Brian Rule wrote: > > i just picked up a Snow iMac G3 for $30. Right now it's running > Jaguar and I would like to upgrade it to Tiger. Of course this is a > problem since the iMac only has a CD ROM in it. I may decide to > upgrade the drive, but for now I''d be fine with just sticking with > the CD drive in it now. So what's the best way I can go about > upgrading? > > Ideas I've had so far: > 1. take the hard drive out of the iMac, put it in my B&W which has a > DVD drive install Tiger there, then reinstall in the iMac. > > 2. Try to boot in to firewire using my B&W or iBook and install like > that. > > Any better ideas? > TIA, > Brian
The first idea is one I've used a couple of times and it works very well. Never tried #2. There is also a CD set of install disks available for TIger. As I already owned the DVD I felt justified downloading the CD set from a torrent, just for times like this. HTH Just a message from Doug... http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a <+> A home for the Hackintosh community. To subscribe to the HQ-A group, send email to hq-a +subscr...@googlegroups.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
