Thanks for the response. I’m on Digest Mode, and somehow I got these
only today.
There are two issues here: how to install onto the iBook, and why the
iBook doesn’t see a HD in a connected G4 2x500 in Target disk mode.
I did the install booting the G4 from the DVD and installing onto the
iBook
I think you should try the external HD. I've had my Power Macs G4
linked via Firewire and TDM, with a disc in the drive. The disc didn't
show, the HDD did.
I've searched some on the net and it appears that support for optical
drives in TDM depends on the model of Macintosh you use as the target
It sounds like you have the right idea but your implementation is backwards.
You want to put the iBook into target disk mode, plug a Firewire cable into
it and the G4, then boot the G4 off of the install DVD. The iBook's drive
should be listed as an drive option to install to.
On Thu, Sep 15,
I’m trying to install 10.4 on an iBook G3 running 10.3.
It’s the first white one, the Dual USB, with only a CD drive, and my
Tiger installer disk is a DVD.
So I connected a G4 Mac (Snakebite) in target mode to use its DVD
drive.
But the iBook doesn’t see the DVD or the boot drive in the G4, it
