On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Fernando Chavez <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/15/2013 09:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> I need to upgrade a macbook pro to 10.6, but the internal dvd won't
>> work. My G5 has a working dvd drive, but, of course, the 10.6 drive
>> won't run any intel installer for me.
>> 
>> I am under the impression that it is possible to network the G5 and
>> the MBP such that they can share the G5's dvd drive, and yet load the
>> 10.6 installer---as if the G5 was an external dvd. So, very simply,
>> how do I do this, step by step? I only have an ethernet cable and a
>> USB cable.
>> 
> In order for you to utilize a remote drive you will need to network the 
> computer with the required cd/ dvd-rw component. In this case via router or 
> switch. Do you have a 4 port router?

All macs since (iirc) sometime during the G3 era have had autosensing ethernet 
ports; all you need to connect them is an ethernet cable.

-- 
Bruce Johnson

"Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD

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