Re: Installing tiger using cd's

[Scott Howell]

Now that I honestly do not know, but it might be worth a try. I'm not  
as familiar with that version of the iMac although I love the fact you  
can take it apart. THe newer iMacs are very difficult to open and they  
really weren't meant to be serviceable like the one you have.

Scott Howell
s.how...@verizon.net



On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:57 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote:

Thanks for the responces david and scott.
Do you think the mac will still be able to boot from usb since its  
only 1.1?
I took off the back plastic section to clean it out with compressed
air and I found the ide cable for the internal cd drive, so if i'm
left with no other option i'll just have to do a bit of a dirty hack
and install with the case open, upside down with a ide dvd rom drive
on my desk. hmmm.
Thanks.

On 29/01/2009, Scott Howell <s.how...@verizon.net> wrote:
You should be able to use an external CD drive I'm sure. That is a
fine deal indeed.
Scott Howell
s.how...@verizon.net



On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:26 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote:

Hey. I didn't think that apple sold tiger anymore? I didn't really
think it would come with anything to be honest, but even on its  
own, a
g3 400, 576mb of ram and a 40gb harddrive for £4.99 isn't bad imo.

On 29/01/2009, David Poehlman
<david.poehl...@handsontechnologeyes.com> wrote:
apple may be able o provide you with cds.  I'm surprised it didn't
come with them.

On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:22 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote:

Hey all.

Picked up a imac that admitidly was a bit of a gamble for £4.99 and
apon inspection, I see that it meets the requirements for tiger.
However, my tiger disk is a dvd and according to google this  
poticula
mac only has a cd drive.

Can anyone think of any way that I can install tiger on this mac? I
was thinking of using a usb to ide adaptor to attach a usb dvd rom,
but i'm not sure if it will boot from usb plus its only 1.1 so  
things
are going to be painfully slow.

I'll be very greatfull for any ideas.
Cheers.







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