Hi, It would be far easier if you had Firewire capabilities. You could set the Mini in Target mode connected to either another Mac with Firewire capabilities or an external Firewire HD with the OS installed. These older Macs were very easily manipulated using Firewire connectivity.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-06, at 12:26 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > That's quite a pickle. There are some instructions here to get an older mac > to boot from a bootable USB device using some open firmware commands: > > http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html > > CB > > On 6/6/13 12:44 PM, eric oyen wrote: >> hello guys, >> >> I m working on a friends mac mini G4 (yeah I know, its old), and I need to >> install OS X 10.5 on it from a USB stic. There is no DVD Drive available on >> this machine and the user doesn't know his originl password. Any suggestions >> for how a totally blind geek can do this easily? >> >> -eric >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
