Quick Question: MBP and iMac G4

The optical drive on our G4 is dead. I need to install a textbook via CD for my daughter using my MBP as the optical drive. Will a simple USB to USB cable work? Thanks in advance...

USB won't work but firewire or ethernet cable would. You can start the G4 in FireWire Target Disk Mode ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661 ) and access the G4 drive from the MBP. Using ethernet, you set up a simple network and move files across it.

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