1. You should be able to do this as once you enter Firewire Target disk Mode, the e-mac is just a firewire disk and both machines are PPC G4's or so I would expect if the ibook is a white one.
In terms of Tiger vs Leopard, I find Leopard not only to be significantly more visually friendly to the user, but also faster for most applications. I have a pair of e-macs that I upgraded to Leopard in the last 6 months and I am soo much happier. When going to some websites especially ones with significant javascript, the page loads can still take 4-5 times longer then on the intel based machines I used, but they are twice as fast as under tiger. Jon On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > > Hey and thanks for the reply. > Both machines are tiger machines - I use the emac for audio and not > much else so I figgured that i'd opt for a faster os with less > features since I wouldn't be using many of the features in leopard - > its a g4 1.42. > The harddrive is a 80gb soon to be replaced with a nice and fast 250 > 7200rpm. > > On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was written >> for >> the Intel chip set. >> Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? >> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >> >>> >>> Hey all. >>> >>> I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its >>> internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have no >>> strange faults that would render the system unusable when it has a >>> harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to my emac >>> and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but i'm >>> getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. >>> >>> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this before - >>> what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? >>> >>> Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger on it >>> but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. >>> >>> Thanks for reading, BEN. >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > -- > Kind regards, BEN. > > email: [email protected] > msn: [email protected] > web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
