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Hi,
I've already searched the discussions and didn't find what I'm looking for. I do NOT want to get the CDs for Tiger unless I have to.
I have multiple Macs at home and one at work (G3 Tower) so I bought the Tiger family pack. I don't want to have to connect up the G4 Powerbook every day at work as the G3 Tower is good enough. I currently as running Panther on it. It works pretty well (yes it's slow but it does well other than that).
Have anyone successfully used FireWire cables (or ethernet cable) between a G4 PowerBook and a G3 Tower and successfully installed Tiger from the DVD drive on the PowerBook onto a G3 Tower?
No I don't want to buy an external DVD drive for this if I can do it as above.
Thanks in advance.

Here's an update, should anyone care.
I've installed a 40GB hard drive in my G3 Tower along side my 6GB drive. I then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my 6gb drive onto my 40gb drive. Thankfully it uses the whole drive instead of just creating a 6gb partition. Anyway, so now I've booted from the new drive which has 33gb free.
With my G3 Tower booted up I inserted my Tiger (family pack) DVD into my G4 800mhz PowerBook then rebooted and put it into Target mode by holding down the T key when booting it up. Note that the two computers were connected by a FireWire cable.
The G3 Tower can see my PowerBook but it can't see the PowerBook's DVD drive. I was able to confirm this on the internet that Target mode will only allow another computer to view internal hard drives.
I then tried to copy the Tiger DVD to my PowerBook's hard drive. I get a message that it can't because there are folders with permission rights that don't allow this. Maybe I'll have to get the CDs for Tiger after all. But I'd still like to do this without having to. If nothing else I might actually learn something (more).

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