I believe I recall that YDL 4 or 4.1 can run from an iPod but that is not the same thing as running anaconda (the standard YDL installer) from the iPod so that YDL is installed onto the G3 iBook.
If you've a desktop Mac somewhere and you've a bit of mechanical skill and some cash (just about $89+) perhaps this problem can be resolved. Explanation: You could remove the CD ROM/RW or DVD-RW that may be currently sitting with the desktop mac. Instead install it into another device (called an enclosure) which can carry not only it, but also a 3.5 inch hard drive and also contains a 6-in-1 card reader (CF I/II, MD, SD, MMC , MS/MS PRO) which can be connected to any computer (including that g3 laptop) with a USB 2.0 port. You can read about that enclosure here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/88dc/ There are other optical drive enclosures but they only do one thing and you could be, at this point, looking for ways to expand function of devices without losing space. This could be one way to do that. If that particular enclosure just is too much there are a variety of optical drive enclosures available via the web. Remember that the isos for YDL4 have to be downloaded and burnt onto CDs. After the YDl 4.1 CDs exist then you can run anaconda from those CDs onto the g3 ibook via booting the computer from the CD running from the optical drive running within an enclosure. I don't have the particular device I'm telling you about, but I have booted my laptop from a YDL CD running from an optical drive installed into a different enclosure designed to house optical drives. Believe me the computer doesn't know the difference. Booting from an CD even though the optical drive is external to the computer will work however booting YDL from an external hard drive will not. On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:52:54 -0600 "執事尼古拉" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My daughter's original G3 iBook (266mhz I believe) had it's CD ROM > drive die when I was in the middle of upgrading her Mac OS X 10.2 > install to 10.3 and so it is unbootable. I know YDL 5 no longer is > bootable from an external drive, but can I boot one of these iBooks > using YDL 4.1 if I install it on an iPod? Could I also install YDL > 4.1 on the iBook from said iPod? Just wondering. > ======== The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, in comparison with it, the highest intelligence of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work. -- Albert Einstein, Scientist.
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