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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