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.
Again, good luck!
Jim Scott
Thanks to everyone here, I have a working G3 iMac almost ready to go
for my Mom! I think she will be thrilled. :)
I did as Jim outlined above. installed the HD in the iMac, connected
it to my G4 Powermac via firewire, started the iMac up in Target Disk
Mode, ran the install DVD from the G4, repartitioned the iMac drive,
ran the install, shut them both down, disconnected the firewire cable,
booted up the iMac and all is good! Now I just need to add some
software to it and probably get an airport card so she can tap into
her apartment complex's provided wifi.
Anyone have any suggestions for free software that a 70ish retired
lady would like? I need to find her a solitaire game for sure, because
her last computer was a Windows box years ago and she played a lot of
solitaire on it. :)
I really appreciate everyone's help!
Thanks,
Kevin Avery
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