Mac 10.5 disc for iMac

Hi, i have a disc that belongs to an imac. The version is 10.4 and i wanted to know if it will work on a blue g3.

A blue G3 may have difficulty upgrading to 10.4, unless it has a built-in DVD drive. Alternatives are:
1. Installing 10.4 on another Blue G3 with a DVD drive, and moving the hard drive over to the Blue G3 in question.
2. Locating the hard to find Media Exchange Program CDs for Tiger.
3. Replacing the optical drive in your G3 with a DVD drive known to work for the Tiger installer. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ http://www.macsales.com/ and http://www.mcetech.com/ are all resources that can help there.
Both the Media Exchange CDs & the Tiger retail DVD look like * and do not say Upgrade, DropIn, or OEM on them. These are the only ones which will work on a Blue G3.
The Blue G3 does not support Target Disk Mode, nor does it support Firewire DVD drive booting.
You will also need to make sure the clock battery is under 4 years old.
And while 256 MB is the minimum you can run Tiger with, I recommend 512 MB if you plan to use a lot of Dashboard widgets.
There is no USB 2 on Blue G3s (it is only USB 1), meaning transfering to an iPod will be very slow unless you can find an older Firewire based iPod, or find a bus powered PCI USB 2 card. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ may help in finding that.
You should backup your data*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
before attempting any installation. And verify that all your software and hardware is 10.4 compatible before upgrading.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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