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I have the family edition Leopard upgrade disc. I am trying to upgrade my powerbook g4 17 to leopard however the DVD rom drive seems to have taken a turn for the worse. How can I install leopard onto this computer without the use of the computers main drive? I have connected a USB DVD-ROM drive in hopes that I could just use it to boot from, however, it doesn't work when I restart and hold down option or C. Is there a way to tell it to boot from the USB drive? IS there a way to do it using Tareget disk mode? Help Please!!!

I believe that, for the PB series, an external optical drive must be FireWire to boot. You could try FireWire Target Disk Mode from another FW-equipped Mac with a Combo or SuperDrive. See this article:
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2005/05/thecats_mustachesinstalling.html
It's written about Tiger put the methods should work with Leo.
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