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Posted by: Tempest on 2018-06-20 18:35:55
[SIZE=12pt]I was going to upgrade my G3 iMac to Tiger tonight when I noticed my Tiger disc was a DVD which my iMac won't read. Am I better off searching for a Tiger CD set or just buy a FireWire DVD reader? Are most OS X programs for Tiger or older on CD or DVD? [/SIZE]
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Posted by: Skate323k137 on 2018-06-20 19:54:13
Have any other firewire macs? You could boot one in target disk mode with the dvd in it, connected to the imac.
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Posted by: Tempest on 2018-06-20 20:00:42
I have a PowerBook G4 that has Firewire. I guess I'd need to find a FireWire cable.
Would a usb dvd drive work on the iMac? I think I have one of those somewhere.
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Posted by: Skate323k137 on 2018-06-20 20:07:58
I'm not sure if your imac would boot from usb or not but you can try it. Mine doesn't but it's an earlier model (sans firewire.)
If you find a firewire cable your powerbook will functionally work as a dvd drive for your imac if you boot the powerbook in target disk mode.
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-06-21 16:50:43
Technically, no Power Macs can boot via USB (to Mac OS X, at least), but it does work in a limited fashion I think (I haven't tried in many years, so I can't remember).
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Posted by: bibilit on 2018-06-22 01:10:05
I have booted many Powermacs using USB, for sure the Powermac G4s and many Ibooks will work.
The Imac G4 (iLamp) will work for sure, done a few months ago without issue.
Using a thumb drive is the better solution...
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Posted by: Tempest on 2018-06-22 06:18:18
I found Tiger on CD so I'm just going to use those. I actually do own a copy on DVD so I think I'm ok. 🙂
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