On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Fernando Chavez nando@grandecom.net wrote:
On 08/15/2013 09:23 PM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to upgrade a macbook pro to 10.6, but the internal dvd won't
work. My G5 has a working dvd drive, but, of course, the 10.6 drive
won't run any intel
It seems unlikely that a thread started on Aug.15th regarding booting an
Installer Disc from another Mac hasn't been solved over 3 weeks later, but
perhaps not?
For certain this easy solution is to connect the two computers with a Firewire
cable with the G5 booted in Target Disk Mode with the
You'll want to put the DVD in the G5 and reboot holding T for target
disk mode. Then connect your MBP to the G5 using a firewire cable, and
boot the MBP holding the Option key. You'll see a menu of bootable
drives, select the DVD in the G5 and go.
On 8/15/13 10:23 PM, arichic...@gmail.com
Sharing the drive is not enough, you want to be able to boot the Macbook
from it.
That's why even a USB-connected DVD drive won't do the trick and why
Firewire-based target mode is such a great thing!
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The Snow Leopard installation guide indicates that one need simply to
network the machines, even wirelessly, provided the one with the optical
drive has 10.5 or later. So why wouldn't the dvd drive sharing work if they
were conected via ethernet?
On Thursday, August 15, 2013 9:23:57 PM UTC-5,
I need to upgrade a macbook pro to 10.6, but the internal dvd won't
work. My G5 has a working dvd drive, but, of course, the 10.6 drive
won't run any intel installer for me.
I am under the impression that it is possible to network the G5 and
the MBP such that they can share the G5's dvd drive,
On Aug 15, 2013, at 7:23 PM, arichic...@gmail.commailto:arichic...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am under the impression that it is possible to network the G5 and
the MBP such that they can share the G5's dvd drive, and yet load the
10.6 installer---as if the G5 was an external dvd. So, very simply,
how
On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
You need to get a firewire cable; the G5 should be capable of starting in
firewire target mode, and I believe that DVD's will show up as well as the
main Hard Drive.
Bruce is correct, use Firewire Target Disk Mode:
1) place the Intel
