Tiger Upgrade from External DVD Rom on G5 Powermac?

get a copy on cd as well?

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The Superdrive or Combo drives which ship with a variety of G5s that I've seen is itself a DVD capable drive. This means no external drive is necessary unless that drive breaks.
Use Apple menu -> About This Mac -> More info to verify the type of optical drive you have installed in your Mac in the System Profiler. Click on the Disc Burning section of the Hardware section to discover if it reads DVD.
If you were attempting to install Tiger on a machine that shipped with Tiger, use the installer disk that came with the machine.
If you are attempting to install Tiger on a machine that shipped before Tiger, use the retail disks, and not another Mac model's restore disks to install Tiger.

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