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Got my kids iLife 05 for holiday (pretty much exclusively for GarageBand2) to install on G4 iMac.
I did NOT know that the GarageBand2 installer is only on the DVD; the iMac has only a CD R/W drive.
Is there a way to split up the GB2 installer (on another machine, obviously) to CDs so I can get it on the iMac?? (I guess it's that or buy an external DVD drive. Sheeeesh....; thought the c-cards were stretched enough.)
Thanks in advance.

Are you positive that the drive is not a combo drive (i.e. CD-RW and DVD-Player)?
since you mentioned using another computer, do you have another computer with a DVD player? Can you network the two together?
I'm wondering if you could load the DVD onto the second machine, then connect to that one with the first, select the DVD, and install over the network. It would be slow, but I think that might work (though it's not something I've tried).
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