High Monarch of MacDebate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
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Yesterday I installed Tiger on my PowerMac G4. It wasn't very easy. The problem I have is that my PowerMac can't read DVD's and Tiger came on a DVD. To solve the problem I figure I could put the DVD in my wifes PowerBook, then connect her mac to mine by booting hers up in target disk mode. When I did that though I only was able to see her hard drive and not her DVD drive. Then I decided to try something else. I opened up Disk Utility on my wifes PowerBook and in the options chose to create an image of the DVD and saved it on her Hard Drive. A few minutes later I had a 2.3GB image file of the DVD. I then connected a mini ipod to the powerbook, and in disk utilities chose to format the ipod. I then told it to restore an image onto the ipod and chose the Tiger image which I had just made a few minutes earlier. This move basically turned the ipod into a Tiger boot disk. I then plugged the ipod into my Powermac and a finder window opened with the Tiger setup file. I double clicked on it and it told me I needed to reboot my mac. Once it restarted it loaded up the Tiger installation and i proceeded to install tiger on my mac.
I don't know if there is another more easier way but this is how I did it. portable: MacBook 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD | personal: PowerMac G5 dual 2.3ghz, 6GB RAM, 6TB HD | work: MacBook Pro 2.5ghz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD | car: Alpine iDA-W407 with black iPod 80GB | pocket: iPhone 3GS with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's |
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Cool idea! The official way seems to be to send the DVD and a few bucks to Apple, who in return will send you Tiger CDs. But your solution clearly beats that!
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Easier and more reliable:
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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BTW, Brad: do you ever sleep? |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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No. I don't.
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Wait what
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: El Dorado County, California
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Sleep is for people with a low caffeine tolerance.
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: New York City
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It sucks that you have to send in the Tiger DVD to get a set of CD media. I am buying the "family pack" and I am going to install Tiger on a few different machines. It would be nice if I could have the DVD media in addition to CD media so I wouldn't have to swap like 4 disks when re-installing on newer machines...
Is it possible to "break up" the DVD image into CD-sized chunks that will work when installing? I get the feeling I'm probably going to have to find the CD images online at some point in the future... 1215/234215 (top .51875%) People really have got to stop thinking there is only one operating system, one economic system, one religion, and one business model. -EvilTwinSkippy (/.) |
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High Monarch of MacDebate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
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oh brad man, that would have been quicker! didn't think about that.
i didnt know i could get Tiger on CDs, interesting but I am not gonna pay more for it you know. portable: MacBook 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD | personal: PowerMac G5 dual 2.3ghz, 6GB RAM, 6TB HD | work: MacBook Pro 2.5ghz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD | car: Alpine iDA-W407 with black iPod 80GB | pocket: iPhone 3GS with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: New York City
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Not only pay more, but lose the Tiger DVD in the process...
no thanks. |
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High Monarch of MacDebate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
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no way, i would have to send my tiger dvd back?? yeah right i am gonna do that. anyway sending the dvd back wouldnt work for me since i am in kuwait.
portable: MacBook 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD | personal: PowerMac G5 dual 2.3ghz, 6GB RAM, 6TB HD | work: MacBook Pro 2.5ghz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD | car: Alpine iDA-W407 with black iPod 80GB | pocket: iPhone 3GS with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's |
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New Member
Join Date: May 2005
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Hi - been quietly reading here for a little while, but making the dive into the forum haha
So if you used an iPod as a boot disk, would you then be able to restore it back as an iPod you could listen to music on? ie return it back to it's normal factory state? |
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Passing by
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: London, Europe
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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Yes, you can just download Apple's iPod software installer and run a "restore" on the iPod. It'll erase it completely and return it to its factory-fresh state.
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