On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
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
Thanks, I think I will give this method a try!
take care,
Kevin
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