I think that they started packaging Panther on DVD toward the end of its run (the last 6 months or so before Tiger was released.) That would explain why David is stuck with a DVD.
[email protected] wrote: >I'm confused... are you trying to install Tiger? Panther came on CD >already... > >My daughter has an iMac with a CD-RW drive and I got around this >problem by starting from an external firewire DVD burner. You might >also do this by removing the drive from the iMac, putting it in an >external firewire case (or a different machine) and installing it >using a different machine. Then, return the drive to the iMac, >connect to the internet and run all the updates. 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