How can I use my 10.5 macbook to install 10.4 on an external drive?

I have to format a new drive on my imac, and that CD drive is not working. So I want to format it off of an external FW drive. I want to install 10.4 on that drive using my macbook (that has 10.5 installed) but the macbook will NOT reboot with the 10.4 dvd at all. And when I run the installer it says 10.4 can't be installed on this hard drive (but I don't want to do that, I want to install it on the external).
Anyway around this?

Hi geek girl,
The only way you can achieve this is by starting up the MacBook in TD mode, with the relevant disc in the Optical drive. You then have to connect the MacBook to a Tiger capable PPC based Mac, attach the external drive to the PPC based Mac and boot the PPC based Mac holding down the option key to access the Startup Manager. Then choose the OS DVD as the startup disc on the PPC based Mac (much as I mentioned in your thread in the iMac G5 forum)
Of course, if you have a normally operating PPC based mac you can simply use it instead, without the need for the macBook at all! This trick is only useful to re-install an OS if the optical drive in the PPC based mac isn't working, but everything else is for example.
In your case with your imac G5, though, I think you have a more serious issue, and simply getting an external drive with the right PPC OS on it isn't going to help you until it is resolved.
Cheers
Rod

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