Need to Install MAC OS X Tiger!!!!

Windows XP was installed on my macbook, I formatted the HD and now there are no OSs installed on the macbook. My macbook optical drive does not read DVDs anymore so I cannot install Tiger. I tried Firewire Target Mode using another computer's optical drive to install Tiger on my macbook but it did not work. I called Apple.. nothing. I searched google and apple's support... nothing. What should I do to install Tiger?

Just curious, did you now your optical drive would not read DVDs when you formatted the hard drive?
Is there someone who trusts you enough to borrow their drive to get the process started?
The lack of an optical drive really creates a sticky problem here.

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Hold the Moyse button down to eject Disc #2 while booting up, at the same time hold the Option/alt key down to have the startup manager pop up, insertt Disc #1 & wait For Disc #1 to show as a boot choice.
That second Disc thing happens frequently, the best way around it is to do a Custom install, and eliminate enough Printer Drivers, Languages, Fonts, and Applications you don't need... then it may skip #2 altogether.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1442
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

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2) Can I take the HDD from the aforementioned Dell and place it in my Power Mac G4 Digital Audio? If so, will Tiger still be on it?
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4) HDD's don't have to be Mac specific, do they?
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http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.8/Desktops
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Even with no HDD in the system Command+r gives me nothing, no options at all and certainly not the Internet Recovery system.
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OS 10.5.x is the max OS for Macs with a PowerPC processor. If your iMac has an Intel processor you can upgrade to Snow Leopard OS 10.6.x and possibly Lion OS 10.7
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24950
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MB427Z/A Leopard 10.5.1 install DVD
MB576Z/A Leopard 10.5.4 install DVD
MB021Z/A Leopard 10.5.6 install DVD (single user)
MB022Z/A Leopard 10.5.6 install DVD (5-user family pack)
Installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1544
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Installation and Setup Guide
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After you install the base 10.5, download & install the 10.5.8 combo update at http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update
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Hi,
I'm attempting to re-install Mac OS X Tiger from the install DVDs that came with my new MacBook Pro. About 1/4 way through the installation, the install quits and it says that it couldn't install and to try installing again. I do that and the same thing happens. What could possibly be wrong?

Hello Chris.
Any particular reason you are attempting a re-install?
Are you trying an Archive & Install or Erase & Install?
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Is it possible to install Mac OS X tiger on a Windows based computer?

im really getting frusterated with windows, but i dont want to spend 500 for a mac. all im really asking..is it possible to install MAC OSX Tiger on a windows based computer? my computer has a dvd drive, CD-RW drive, 512 MB of RAM, and a nivdia G force 4 graphics card.
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Hi got_jorge,
Sorry, this is not possible, as it is not only a matter of data that you put on the Hard Drive.
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CPU, Firmware, Power Management, etc.
It just doesn't work the same way.
May I suggest?
Sell your computer, so that you can get a Mini and (most probably) don't need to buy a display, as yours should make it with the Mini?
Sorry.
Axl

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so i installed disc one of mac os x tiger on my macbook, and when it asks for disc two and i insert it, it loads all the way, then when my computer is turning on it goes back to the beginning of the install and keeps repeating the process. please help !

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I was wondering how to install Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on an external hard drive. I have a 40GB USB/Firewire LaCie Mobile Hard Drive.
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I don't really want to clone my internal hard drive to the external one, but instead want to just be able to use my external hard drive as a mobile startup disk where I can work on files using other Mac computers when I'm away from home.
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I've tried using disk utility to convert it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), but when I attempt install Mac OS Tiger from the system disc after restarting the computer, it shows the available disks that Tiger can be installed on and the ones it can't be installed on, and my external drive shows up as one that it can't be installed on for some reason.
What did you do in DU? Erase? Partition? and what was it before? or just to enable journaling? What is on the LaCie now and does it have adequate space?
Do you have an upgrade Tiger disk?
And why not just clone the system using CCC and skipping /Users and other directories you want to skip?
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I really need help installing mac os 10.0

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Okay, I just got my macbook today, turned it on, loaded some pictures, then noticed the two disks called "Mac OS X". I have never owned a mac and just assumed I needed to install these two discs. A few minutes into installing the first disk, I realized I already had Mac OS X, that it was the operating system (duh). I cancelled the installation. A message came up and said that if I cancel installing I would need to reboot my computer, and would I like it to reboot with Mac OS X from my hard drive or from the CD in the drive? I said from the hard drive. What I think happened was that while I was installing the OS it was deleting what was already on my computer.
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Also, I'm guessing on the 10.4.3, I didn't get a chance to really see the numbers
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adjectiveclaws,
You should be able to boot to the installer disk, and you'll need to do so. At the startup chime, hold down the "C" key. This should get you booted to the installer disk.
Assuming the installer loads, choose a language, then open Disk Utility from the "Utilities" menu. Select the internal hard drive, then switch to the "Erase" pane. Make sure the format is "Mac OS Extended (journaled)," and click "Erase." Quit Disk Utility to return to the installer, then proceed to install OS X normally.
Scott

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