On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:

> If you have the rare Tiger CD set (different than the normal DVD) it should 
> boot fine. If you can't get it to boot, you might try the Option key boot 
> with the CD already in the CDROM.
> 
> If you've got the DVD it won't boot unless you replace the CDROM with a DVD 
> capable drive of some sort. You can alternatively boot from a external 
> Firewire DVD (or even an external USB, although this is problematic).
> 
> Another alternative is using Firewire Target Disk mode (Cmd-T at startup) 
> which makes the iBook appear as an external HD to another Mac. You'd boot the 
> DVD in the other Mac, and attach the iBook (already booted in Target Disk 
> Mode) via Firewire cable and then install normally to the iBook's HD.
> 
Please inform how to boot from USB on PPC machines.


John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA



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