Upgrading to OS 10.4 (on CD iMac) from DVD Software-Phase 2

Suppose I have a Firewire EZQuest DVD burner and want to upgrade an iMac G3 with a slot-loading CD-R/W drive from 10.3.9 to 10.4 via DVD. Will I be able to transfer the DVD info onto the iMac's HD and proceed from there? Or, could I expect to have the iMac restart off the DVD loaded into the DVD burner?
Thanx in advance for any feedback received.
IA-Nick
PowerMac G5, Mac Mini, 3 iMacs Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I gather from the fact that you are posting here that you are unable to boot your iMac G3 from the EZQuest drive. If you haven't tried that, then that is the first thing to do. Insert the Tiger disk in the EZQuest drive and restart the iMac G3. Hold down the Option key after the chime and select the Tiger Install Disk from the choice of icons once they've all loaded.
If that doesn't work then the easiest thing to do here is to:
Insert the Tiger DVD in to another Mac.
Then connect the other Mac to the iMac G3 with a 6pin-to-6pin Firewire cable
Start the other Mac in Firewire Target Disk Mode (Hold down the T key during start-up).
Restart the iMac G3 and hold down the Option (aka alt) key. A purplish screen will appear with the iMac's hard drive, the other Mac's hard drive and the Tiger Install DVD listed.
Wait for it to finish searching for Network drives and then select the Tiger Disk.
Install Tiger as normal.
All you are doing here is borrowing the other Mac's optical drive. There is no need to swap hard drives in and out.
regards
mrtotes

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