Mike, Thanks so much, just my luck isn't it, well, I'll just have to go to plan "B", whatever that is.
Have a great holiday, I appreciate your help. John R. On Sep 5, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Mike Garton wrote: > > > 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/c16b7ed5/attachment.html
