On Feb 7, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Kevin Avery wrote: > I do have one more idea, I have a Powermac G4 dual 450 running 10.4.11 and I > just picked up a PowerMac G5 1.6 running Leopard 10.5.8. Is there any way I > could use either of these machines and put the hard drive I want to put in > the iMac G3 in it and load the OS on the drive then install it in the iMac. > I am thinking that this would not work. I don't really want to spend any > money on this old machine. I may just give her my old G4, I just picked the > G5 up last week and have switched back to Mac from my Windows based notebook. > I certainly missed using OS X on a daily basis. I wish I could buy a new > MacBook, but it just isn't in the budget! > > If there is any way I could load the OS from another computer please let me > know. Would Firewire target mode be any help? Somehow I don't think so.
Put the hard drive you want to use into the iMac. Then hold down the T key while powering on the iMac. If a yellow firewire icon starts bouncing around on a blue screen, you're in business. Connect the iMac to your Power Mac G4 with firewire cable, then start up the PowerMac and use its Disk Utility to partition t the iMac's hard drive. Once that's done, use the G4's DVD to install OS X 10.4 on the iMac. Of course, if the iMac won't boot into firewire target disk mode, you can try installing 10.4 on the hard drive while it's in the Power Mac, then move it to the iMac. That would/should work, assuming you set the iMac hard drive to slave while in the Power Mac and then set it to master for use in the iMac. Again, good luck! Jim Scott -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
