Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-04 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
Kris, It worked like a charm! Thank you! On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > You do the same. Place the DVD into the optical drive of the Intel > iMac. Shutdown and restart holding the "T" key until you see the > Firewire symbol on the iMac display. With the G4 shutdown, attach it

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 02:22 PM, Dan wrote: > > But really... a machine without a decent DVD burner these days, is a > machine that's at risk - too much trouble to back it up, etc. > > OWC has some great drives and wonderful how-to-install guides. I > think they're like $40. That's

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
Dan wrote: > At 12:30 PM -0800 12/3/2008, Clark Martin wrote: >> Dan wrote: >> > Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to the iMac with a >>> firewire cable. Run the OS X installer on the iMac, targetting the >>> QS's drive. >> I don't know if this will work or not but it's better to do t

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
At 12:30 PM -0800 12/3/2008, Clark Martin wrote: >Dan wrote: > > Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to the iMac with a >> firewire cable. Run the OS X installer on the iMac, targetting the >> QS's drive. > >I don't know if this will work or not but it's better to do the >installation o

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
Dan wrote: > At 1:11 PM -0500 12/3/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: >> G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower >> 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.2.8 > [snip] >> I have to BUY an optical drive compatible with OS 10.2.8. >> >> Is this what you guys would do? > > Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
At 1:11 PM -0500 12/3/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: >G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower >896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.2.8 [snip] >I have to BUY an optical drive compatible with OS 10.2.8. > >Is this what you guys would do? Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to the iMac with a firewire c

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > > Okay, so I *was* all ready to upgrade, but the G4 has no DVD drive. > > So I'm on hold with Apple right now as there's Applecare for the new > iMac, I thought I'd network the two machines together with the Airport > Express and upgrade from

Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
Okay, so I *was* all ready to upgrade, but the G4 has no DVD drive. So I'm on hold with Apple right now as there's Applecare for the new iMac, I thought I'd network the two machines together with the Airport Express and upgrade from the iMac's DVD drive. The Apple Tech says that's not possible