Find another Mac like iMac, pay 5 dollars for a new FireWire cable and use the other Mac as a disk drive to install onto the G5. If you have an old laptop drive slot load you can replace that drive also.
Sent from far far away On Mar 4, 2013, at 7:21 PM, "Philip Christiansen" <philipadamchristian...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just acquired a G5 iMac yesterday. As a long time Mac user, I was looking > forward to tinkering around with it. However, there is no OS installed and > the DVD drive is shoddy, so I am being a little fiddly with my solutions. A > few facts first: > > 1.) I don't have a firewire cable. I can't remember where I had it last. It's > somewhere, I just don't know where. > 2.) I have several other Macs to aid in the process. > 3.) I can pull the hard drive from the iMac and fiddle with it. > > From looking around most of the day, it seems I have two options, neither of > which is entirely satisfactory, or maybe even possible. > > 1.) Clone the hard drive off my G4 mini onto the iMac. They will both run > 10.4, but the last time I did this with a different computer, it messed up > the permissions pretty badly, and I ended up reinstalling the OS anyways. Is > this even possible to do with the differences between computers? > > 2.) I don't know if this will work or not. Is it possible to partition the > iMac's hard drive, partition it with a 10GB portion that I could then use as > an install "DVD"? > > Thanks for your help, I am a little stuck. > > Philip > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
