On Mar 20, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Dan wrote: > At 8:03 AM -0700 3/20/2010, John Carmonne wrote: >> I recently put a Tiger install disk DVD image on an external Firewire drive. >> I was able to boot from it when I first did this. Either it went bad or I'm >> doing something wrong here. Does anyone know of this method of installation? > > Why would you do that? > > The bootable system on that DVD is a tailored/crippled environment created > for the installation work. That's it. If you can boot from a hard drive - > internal or external - why would you want to boot from a copy of that DVD? > Why not just boot from a full OS installation? > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. The machine I want to install the Tiger on does not read DVDs, however it does have a Firewire port, and in the woods of NC there are no DVD external drives around.:-) The external drive has the Tiger DVD retail image on it. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA
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