Panther on Emac with no DVD drive?

Hi
Does anyone know how I can load Panther into my emac when it only has a CD drive - the installation discs for Panther are DVDs?
Many thanks

mousetarget,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
If you have or can borrow another Mac with a DVD drive that can boot Tiger, you can connect the two with a Firewire cable and put the eMac in Firewire Target Disk Mode. You can also use an external DVD drive. A safer option is to use Apple's Tiger Media Exchange program (which has been continued past it's original July 2005 expiration date) to exchange your Tiger DVD for a set of CDs for a nominal S/H fee. That way, if you ever need to reinstall Tiger and don't have the second Mac or external DVD drive handy, you can still proceed.

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