On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
Il giorno 15-09-2011 15:06, Geke ha scritto:
So I connected a G4 Mac (Snakebite) in target mode to use its DVD
drive.
AFAIK, Target mode only connect hard drives; never heard (and never
seen
myself) about optical drives showing up.
Optical drives on the built-in ATA bus do mount discs in Target Disk
Mode.
BTW, what is a "Snakebite"? :-o
Never heard such model....
MacTracker says it's a dual 500MHz Gigabit Ethernet.
But the iBook doesn’t see the DVD or the boot drive in the G4, it
sees
only the second HD in there, the original one with OS 9 installed.
Not seeing the first HD is odd.
Is is connected in unusual ways? (PCi card, SCSI...)
Is it bigger than 128GB?
Bad cable or cable disconnected?
If this isn’t possible, I plan to Carbon-copy the DVD onto an
external
HD with a Firewire port, then do the install with that HD connected
to
the iBook. I hope that’ll work at least...
I think going "external" is the only way for installing.
Either the external HD, or an external DVD player...
Another option would be cloning an OSX disk/partition (using CCC)
onto the
iBook HD in Target mode.
I copied my PM G4 OSX partition onto a PowerBook G4 and a PM G5, and
it has
always worked.
Might not be the best way, but it usually works... ;-)
Boot the SnakeBite from the DVD and attach the iBook in Target Disk
Mode and install directly onto the iBook HD.
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