Dan wrote: > At 12:30 PM -0800 12/3/2008, Clark Martin wrote: >> Dan wrote: >> > Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to the iMac with a >>> firewire cable. Run the OS X installer on the iMac, targetting the >>> QS's drive. >> I don't know if this will work or not but it's better to do the >> installation on the target machine (G4) and use the iMac as the DVD >> drive under Target Disk Mode. Another poster already listed the procedure. > > Target Disk Mode offers DVD drives? I didn't know that! Cool.
Any drive attached to the built in IDE interfaces as far as I know. BTW, the other way of doing an OS install when you don't have a DVD drive is to do a Carbon Copy Cloner clone of the DVD to a small firewire drive. Then boot the FW drive on the target machine. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
