How to install Tiger on iBook with cd drive only?

SInce Tiger is on a DVD, I'm thinking I gotta do a target disk mode thing. Anyone else done that? What's the procedure?
thanks

The procedure is to hook the two machines up with a FireWire cable, and then hold down the T key while starting up the iBook. Doing this requires that both machines are capable of running the retail version of Tiger; some recent machines can't. You should not do this if the other machine is a G5; one person messed up their system by doing so. Otherwise, you shouldn't have any problems.
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My daughter has an iBook currently running OS 10.3.8, and I'd like to upgrade it to run Tiger. Unfortunately her iBook doesn't have DVD read capability, only a CD drive. How do I install Tiger onto her iBook, or is she stuck with Panther forever? I have a G4 PowerBook with Tiger installed, can I use my PB somehow to upgrade her iBook?
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Hi Kevin from Northeast (UK or US?)
As long as the copy of Tiger that she has is the black retail version then there should be no problems.
Insert the DVD into the PB. Shut the PB down. Restart the PB holding the T key down until you see the big firewire Y jumping around. Connect the PB and the iBook with a firewire cable. The PB's HD and the loaded Tiger disk will appear in the iBook's Finder. Select the Tiger disk and double click on the 'Install OS X' icon. You will then be presented with a choice of destinations and a choice of installation options.
(You could, instead, start the iBook in Target Disk Mode and run the installation from the PB. Same difference.)
Providing your daughter has no problems with her existing Panther installation there is no reason why you shouldn't opt for the 'Upgrade' which will preserve all user settings, preferences, documents etc., although it would be wise to back up to another medium before you start. An external HD is ideal, but spare space in the PB would suffice for her 'Home' folder at least.
The other choices besides 'Upgrade' are Erase & Install which does exactly what it says, or Archive & Install.
Not knowing your level of expertise on Macs I don't want to possibly bore you with minutiae but feel free to ask if you're not clear on anything.
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The 500mhz ibook with cd drive is still going strong! I would like to move up to at least Tiger and iWork 2005 on the ibook but these titles are on DVD. I have a G5 iMac... is there anyway to connect the two machines and install software onto the ibook via the G5? Any other creative workaround suggestions are welcome!
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Hi, Greg. Have you upgraded the hard drive, or was it a custom-build iBook with a bigger hard drive than standard? I don't really recommend installing Tiger on a 10 GB hard drive.
Our own F.J. has written an article on Installing Tiger without a DVD drive.
You may want to check it out, but if you have just a 10 GB hard drive, I'd think about it long and hard before proceeding. You need to keep about 5 GB free for Panther or Tiger to run smoothly. You are going to have to be consumed with disk maintenance if you install it on a 10 GB hard drive.

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I have been given an iBook G4 and would like to upgrade it to Tiger 10.4 using my generic Tiger 10.4 upgrade disk. iBook will not start up from the Tiger disk even holding "C" key down. Also, restarting as a Target disk holding down "T" key, icon does not show up on my Power Mac G4. What am I doing wrong and what suggestions.
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to test the FireWrie, you can try to connect to PowerMac and use System Profiler, see what it says under FireWire
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How do install Tiger from an external USB drive?

I'm trying to upgrade from 10.2.8 to Tiger. How do I install Tiger from my external USB DVD drive? Tiger only comes on DVD and my G4 only has a CD ROM as an internal drive. Is there a way to boot from an external USB DVD drive?

bamim2,
you obviously just cracked some known hardware restrictions that not even Apple knew how to do: Don't start up from an external USB device.
The procedure you described is the standard procedure for the startup manager. However, as Apple's article explains this does NOT work with USB-devices on PowerPC (G3, G4, G5) based Macs.

URGENT: Install Tiger on iBook without CD Drive or Firewire Drive

Help!!
I have an iBook which needs Tiger installing.
However, the CD drive has pack up, and I dont have a Firewire External CD player, only a USB one.
Is there a way i can connect another Mac to the iBook by firewire cable and use that CD drive to install Tiger on the iBook?
Any help, advice would be massively appreciated
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These installs will work subject to license agreement:
1. Connect an external firewire drive to any machine.
2. Boot off CD and install on external firewire drive.
3. Clone back to same machine or move said hard drive internally into same
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2. Boot off Leopard on a second iMac G4 1.25 Ghz and connect the machine in step one to the machine in step 2.
3. Install Leopard or Tiger.
1. Boot off Firewire DVD drive the Leopard or Tiger installer.
2. Install Leopard on the same machine the drive is connected to.
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2. Boot off an iBook G4 1 Ghz and connect the machine step one to the machine in step 2.
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The reason is that each vintage Mac, and each Mac model has distinct drivers.
In Target mode, the target machine (the machine you held the T key down) is assumed by the installer to be nothing more than an external drive to be a machine with the same configuration of the host machine because that's the only machine's firmware it can detect.
And by "work" I mean, the installation may appear it succeeds but circumstances such as kernel panics, and unsuccessful upgrades later will make the whole effort in vain.
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HDD crashed! How to install Tiger onto 867mhz G4 with no DVD drive??

Hi folks.
My trusty 867mhz G4 Quicksilver Powermac drive has finally konked out. It was running OS 9.2.2 before. Now I want to install Tiger as the OS.
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3) Set the Quicksilver as a firewire target disk hooked up to my dual 2.5GHZ G5 Power Mac. Result = frozen blue screen
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So for anyone facing the same problem, one of the possibilities is: you can do it with the computer set as a firewire target disk hooked up to another computer running nothing newer than Tiger.
Thanks again for your help guys!

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自学linux wrote:
http://blog.chinaunix.net/u/31909/showart_1121360.html
A waste of CD-ROM...........,in china, many people install linux just by iso,don't burn the iso,
could you give me the two files (the "vmlinz "and the "initrd.img") in archlinux2008.03.iso, those can't find in archlinux2008.06.iso
my email :[email protected]
Do you have a USB stick you could copy the image to? Where I live, a CD costs $0.50 at most. To put that into perspective. A coffee costs a $1.00. Either a CD costs a lot more than a coffee where you live or are you telling me you'd rather get a lot of grey hair than buy half a coffee?
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fas … nux_System
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … her_distro
Last edited by solarwind (2008-08-27 04:37:59)

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