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From: News Groupie on 12 Sep 2005 16:06
My iBook doesn't have a DVD drive but I need to install Mac OS X 10.4
(Tiger) (which I have on DVD disc). I do have an USB hard drive. How can I
install Tiger with only a built-in CD-ROM drive and an external USB hard
drive?

TIA


From: nospam on 12 Sep 2005 16:51
In article <odlVe.87256$Hx4.15886(a)twister.nyroc.rr.com>, News Groupie
<newsgroupie(a)newsgroups.com> wrote:

> My iBook doesn't have a DVD drive but I need to install Mac OS X 10.4
> (Tiger) (which I have on DVD disc). I do have an USB hard drive. How can I
> install Tiger with only a built-in CD-ROM drive and an external USB hard
> drive?

apple has a tiger media exchange program and will send you cds in place
of your dvd.

http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexchangev3.pdf

alternately, you can use an external firewire dvd drive.
From: Fred McKenzie on 13 Sep 2005 13:39
In article <odlVe.87256$Hx4.15886(a)twister.nyroc.rr.com>, "News Groupie"
<newsgroupie(a)newsgroups.com> wrote:

> My iBook doesn't have a DVD drive but I need to install Mac OS X 10.4
> (Tiger) (which I have on DVD disc). I do have an USB hard drive. How can I
> install Tiger with only a built-in CD-ROM drive and an external USB hard
> drive?

Groupie-

With what you have to work with, your only recourse appears to be to
contact Apple for the CD version of the installation disks.

Do you (or a friend) have any other Macs with DVD drives? They don't have
to be able to write, just read the DVD, and have a FireWire port. You can
boot the iBook in Target Disk mode by holding down the T key while
booting. Then connect a FireWire cable between Macs, boot the other Mac
using the OS X DVD, and install from there.

Fred
From: ravensong on 25 Sep 2005 17:13

Yes when you find out, please let me know? I am trying to install Tiger
on to my G3 ibook from an external USB DVD drive and I am having
problems...


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From: tacit on 25 Sep 2005 21:58
In article <ravensong.1vxo1a(a)nomx.macosx.com>,
ravensong <ravensong.1vxo1a(a)nomx.macosx.com> wrote:

> Yes when you find out, please let me know? I am trying to install Tiger
> on to my G3 ibook from an external USB DVD drive and I am having
> problems...

You cannot boot OS X from a USB device; installing Tiger from a USB CD
or DVD drive will not work.

This is one reason to go with FireWire, not USB, when you choose a
storage device.

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