The Power Mac G3 did not have the capability to boot from a FireWire drive, which addresses the problem booting from the targeted Mac Mini. Also, it did not support FireWire target mode itself, the last desktop model not to. This is unfortunate for you who, trying to load Tiger onto your machine. The best method may be to try and take apple up on its DVD to CD exchange for Tiger disks, or you could buy a DVD drive for the G3(Internal or External). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but thats the story. I learned about this the hard way....
here are the reference docs: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58238 (question 10) http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583 (list of Target mode compatible machines) Mike Garton On 5 Sep , 2005, at 7:18 AM, Profile wrote: > Harry or anyone, > > Harry, I tried your advice from last night about starting the non > DVD machine in the "Target" mode, it will not start as such. I > have tried using a different keyboard, I went back into system > preferences to be sure it had the hard drive as the start-up drive, > and I have attempted this at least six to 8 times. It comes up > with the flashing ? on a blank folder, then finally goes to the > machine's O.S., which is 10.3.7. > > This is on a tower G-3 400, with 384 Ram. > > What am I doing wrong? I could get the Mini Mac to boot in Target > mode, but not the G3 > > Thanks for your help! > > John R. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050905/b719c6bd/attachment.html
