Hi again Kevin,
I found this Document on one of my External Drives (boy, I need a
decent filing system, so I can find stuff) ;-)
Installing Tiger without a DVD drive:
Use an external DVD drive:
That might seem like an obvious solution but many Mac users are
wondering whether this is possible. The good news is that it is, with
most external DVD drives. Anything modern, self powered, FireWire
equipped and using the latest firmware available for it has good
chances to do the trick.
The difficulty here is that you need to be able to boot from this
device. To perform the installation this way, connect the external
drive to the Mac, insert the DVD into it and restart your Mac while
holding the “Option” key.
After a while, your Mac should present you with a list of all the
available boot volumes, which includes this external drive — you may
need to wait a few minutes until you can click on it but that’s
normal. From there on, simply follow the traditional steps and you
should be all right.
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Using FireWire Target Disk Mode
This installation method relies on the ability of modern Macs to boot
into a special mode called “FireWire Target Disk Mode” that causes
them to be seen by other computers are simple external FireWire hard
drives. It will require that you have a spare Mac with a built-in
SuperDrive or Combo drive (anyone knows why they aren’t called
ComboDrive, by the way?) to play with.
Start by starting the DVD-deprived Mac into FireWire Target Disk Mode,
by holding the “T” key down until you see a big FireWire logo dancing
on the screen. Then, by using a thick, known-good FireWire cable,
connect it to your other Mac and wait until it appears on your Desktop.
Finally, insert the Tiger DVD into the computer and restart it. From
there on, simply follow the traditional steps. You will be able to
select the external Mac in the Installer Window as the destination
drive for Mac OS X. Your other volumes should be left intact.
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Cheers,
Ronni
Hi Kevin,
Information here how to install using Target Disc Mode. You might
find it useful Kevin.
<http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0710.html>
<http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0914.html>
I did read about installing Tiger by just running the OSInstall.mpkg
located in /System > Installation > Packages on the DVD.
BUT, I can't find whether this had any complications, as I'm not
sure if this would give you a Stable System this way.
If I find the document I read, I'll let you know.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 16/12/2008, at 3:31 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote:
Eugene,
Thanks. I was a bit hesitant to try that, but it sounds OK.
Anything I should look out for?
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
a simple solution is to boot a Mac with DVD reader in target mode
and connect via firewire to the old G4 as a slave. You can then
install the OS onto the G4.
Regards,
Eugene
On 16/12/2008, at 3:12 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote:
Does anyone have the CDs for OS 10.4 and would be prepared to
sell them?
I have the DVD but want to load up a G4 which doesn't have a DVD
reader.
TIA
Kevin
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