Installing Int Pio DVR-110 Drive -recognition/bootability ?s

Visiting mother in WY. Her CD has not worked in long tiime. I hooked up Firewire DC ext. drive to boot from for maintenance, etc., but now want to iinstall Tiger and iLife 6 etc. . I'm on vacation and nervous about the installation. Can anyone direct me to a good installation resource. Otherwise, my main questions have to do with all this talk about Patchburn. I'm not clear about the OS compatability. The first thing I want to do is install Tiger, which means I need to boot from the Tiger install disk. What are the OS compatability issues with this drive? The OWC website statessomething about native OS rcognition, then the product details tlak about not supporting OSX and needing Patchburn. Can anyone help sort this out for me? thanks

Patchburn is a firmware patch to extend recognition to non-Apple recordable drives. If your drive shows up in Patchburn's list after you download and launch the program, go ahead and run it. After that, the drive should be bootable and you can install Tiger. Be sure to refer to
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