Re: Tiger onto my iBook
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 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Tiger onto my iBook
Hi: 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. I have one last chance at installation, though, as I have a 900Mhz, dual USB G3 iBook with a combo drive and a FireWire. How do I do it? Does anyone know how to link them together by FireWire? Is the combo drive started up in target mode? When do I hold down the T key (I thought that it was the Y-key)? Is there a web page to explain how to do it? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, dmjh -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Tiger onto my iBook
on 26/07/05 23:42, David Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: 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. I have one last chance at installation, though, as I have a 900Mhz, dual USB G3 iBook with a combo drive and a FireWire. How do I do it? Does anyone know how to link them together by FireWire? Is the combo drive started up in target mode? When do I hold down the T key (I thought that it was the Y-key)? Is there a web page to explain how to do it? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, dmjh David, If your iBook only have USB like I suspect, then you won't be able to boot in FireWire target disk mode. If I'm wrong, then you reboot your iBook and then press the 'T' key immediately until you see the FireWire logo on the screen. Then, you just connect both iBook with a FireWire cable. Again, I'm not sure that the 700MHz has FireWire, so what I've just explained might be a moot point... You might have to contact Apple to get Tiger on CDs. I think there is a small fee for that. You should be able to find more information about this on the Apple web site. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] choke v.: 1. [common] To reject input, often ungracefully. NULs make System V's lpr(1) choke. I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but cpp(1) choked on all those #defines. See barf, gag, vi. 2. [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some flair or bravado; the popular definition is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Tiger onto my iBook
On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 26/07/05 23:42, David Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: 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. I have one last chance at installation, though, as I have a 900Mhz, dual USB G3 iBook with a combo drive and a FireWire. How do I do it? Does anyone know how to link them together by FireWire? Is the combo drive started up in target mode? When do I hold down the T key (I thought that it was the Y-key)? Is there a web page to explain how to do it? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, dmjh David, If your iBook only have USB like I suspect, then you won't be able to boot in FireWire target disk mode. If I'm wrong, then you reboot your iBook and then press the 'T' key immediately until you see the FireWire logo on the screen. Then, you just connect both iBook with a FireWire cable. Again, I'm not sure that the 700MHz has FireWire, so what I've just explained might be a moot point... You might have to contact Apple to get Tiger on CDs. I think there is a small fee for that. You should be able to find more information about this on the Apple web site. -Laurent. -- === = Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin http://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi: Yes the 700 Mhz iBook does have a FireWire port between the ethernet connection and the USB ports. I see the familiar Y underneath it. Which iBook do I boot up into target mode, the one with the combo drive or the one with the CD-ROM? Thanks, and sorry if I seem frustrating. dmjh -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Tiger onto my iBook
on 27/07/05 00:57, David Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 26/07/05 23:42, David Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: 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. I have one last chance at installation, though, as I have a 900Mhz, dual USB G3 iBook with a combo drive and a FireWire. How do I do it? Does anyone know how to link them together by FireWire? Is the combo drive started up in target mode? When do I hold down the T key (I thought that it was the Y-key)? Is there a web page to explain how to do it? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, dmjh David, If your iBook only have USB like I suspect, then you won't be able to boot in FireWire target disk mode. If I'm wrong, then you reboot your iBook and then press the 'T' key immediately until you see the FireWire logo on the screen. Then, you just connect both iBook with a FireWire cable. Again, I'm not sure that the 700MHz has FireWire, so what I've just explained might be a moot point... You might have to contact Apple to get Tiger on CDs. I think there is a small fee for that. You should be able to find more information about this on the Apple web site. -Laurent. Hi: Yes the 700 Mhz iBook does have a FireWire port between the ethernet connection and the USB ports. I see the familiar Y underneath it. Which iBook do I boot up into target mode, the one with the combo drive or the one with the CD-ROM? Thanks, and sorry if I seem frustrating. dmjh Well, to use FireWire target disk mode, *BOTH* your iBooks have to have FireWire. Because that's how you're going to connect them together, using a FireWire cable. Do *both* of your iBooks have built-in FireWire? -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Exploder: [very common] Pejorative hackerism for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser (also Internet Exploiter). Compare HP-SUX, AIDX, buglix, Macintrash, Telerat, ScumOS, sun-stools, Slowlaris. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Tiger onto my iBook
On Jul 27, 2005, at 1:02 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Well, to use FireWire target disk mode, *BOTH* your iBooks have to have FireWire. Because that's how you're going to connect them together, using a FireWire cable. Do *both* of your iBooks have built-in FireWire? -Laurent. Hi: Yes, both have a 6-pin FireWire port. Thanks, dmjh -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Tiger onto my iBook
On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:42 PM, David Harris wrote: Hi: 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. I have one last chance at installation, though, as I have a 900Mhz, dual USB G3 iBook with a combo drive and a FireWire. How do I do it? Does anyone know how to link them together by FireWire? Is the combo drive started up in target mode? When do I hold down the T key (I thought that it was the Y-key)? Is there a web page to explain how to do it? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, dmjh I installed Tiger via my LaCie Porsche external firewire dvd drive. Connect your external drive. Put the tiger dvd in. Let it load on the desktop and then run the installer and it will reboot and start from the dvd to install. Peter Apockotos: http://www.apockotos.com http://www.macmariner.com http://www.knightrider.org -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Tiger onto my iBook
On Jul 26, 2005, at 8:42 PM, David Harris wrote: I have one last chance at installation, though, as I have a 900Mhz, dual USB G3 iBook with a combo drive and a FireWire. How do I do it? Does anyone know how to link them together by FireWire? Is the combo drive started up in target mode? When do I hold down the T key (I thought that it was the Y-key)? Is there a web page to explain how to do it? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I did this on a slot load CD-ROM only iMacDV. Connect both iBooks to one another with the firewire cable. Boot up the iBook with the CD- ROM to a normal desktop. Next boot the put Tiger DVD in the combo drive and boot that iBook with the T key held down. This will make it appear as a set of external drives that should mount on your desktop. Now select the Tiger DVD as the startup disk and you should be set. Worked 100% on that iMacDV anyways. - Dylan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Tiger onto my iBook
on 27/07/05 01:22, David Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2005, at 1:02 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Well, to use FireWire target disk mode, *BOTH* your iBooks have to have FireWire. Because that's how you're going to connect them together, using a FireWire cable. Do *both* of your iBooks have built-in FireWire? -Laurent. Hi: Yes, both have a 6-pin FireWire port. Thanks, dmjh Then, assuming you have a regular FireWire cable, boot the one you want to install Tiger on in FireWire target disk mode. Press 'T' right after rebooting and hold T down until you see the the FireWire logo on the screen. Then, reboot your 900MHz, the one with the combo drive, and startup from the Tiger installation DVD. Connect your 700MHz to the 900MHz using the FireWire cable. When you get to the installer, the 700MHz hard disk should be there, with the FireWire icon on it. Proceed with the installation by selecting this drive. If possible, do a clean install or, at least, do an Archive Install. Once the installer has finished, reboot your 900MHz. Right after you hear the startup sound, unplug the FireWire cable from both iBook. Then, press the Power button on your 700MHz iBook. Once the iBook has shutdown, press the power key again and it should boot from your Tiger installation. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Netscrape: n. [sometimes elaborated to `Netscrape Fornicator', also `Nutscrape'] Standard name-of-insult for Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Netscape's overweight Web browser. Compare Internet Exploiter. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
