John Carmonne wrote:
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.
Same as Firewire. It can be done, on some machines. I booted my
clamshell iBook off a USB DVD drive to install Tiger.
I've booted G3 iMacs from a USB harddrive although they would only boot
OS 9 and not OS X.
It's totally hit or miss as to what works. I haven't tried to compile a
list of machines.
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