I inserted the OS X 10.4 install disc in the PowerBook’s DVD drive and clicked the Install icon, which made the PowerBook reboot from the DVD. When I woke up the PowerBook, icons representing the iBook’s three hard drive partitions were there on the Desktop. I then started the iBook while holding down the T key, and in a few seconds the yellow FireWire symbol began bouncing around on the screen. To put my iBook into Target Disk Mode, I shut it down, and connected it to the PowerBook using a standard 6-pin FireWire cable (the same on both ends) usually used for connecting my external FireWire hard drive. It’s usually used for fast file transfers between computers and is the speediest interface for doing that, but it also works well for system or disk maintenance that requires mounting the drive from another boot volume and, as in this case, for system installations. That is the method I chose for installing Tiger on my iBook, using my Pismo PowerBook‘s DVD drive.įireWire Target Disk Mode is a great innovation, even better than PowerBook SCSI disk mode was back in the SCSI era. If you don’t intend on upgrading your hardware in the near future and have no Mac with a DVD drive available, that may be the most convenient solution.Īnother possibility is to purchase or borrow a freestanding, bootable FireWire DVD drive and run the installer from it.Ī third possibility is to mount your DVD-challenged computer as an external hard drive from a DVD drive-equipped Mac via FireWire Target Disk Mode and choose its hard drive as the destination disk in the OS X 10.4 installer. Apple will let you send in your Tiger install DVD along with $9.95 ( details here), and they will replace it with a set of OS X 10.4 install CDs.
DVD drive for installation (or get CD media from Apple for $9.95).At least 3 GB of available space on your hard drive 4 GB of disk space if you install Xcode 2 developer tools.A built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer.At least 256 MB of physical RAM (512 MB recommended).
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Mac OS X Version 10.4 (PPC) requires a Macintosh with:
My Late 2002 iBook G3/700 has only a CD-ROM drive, and some of the education-only Macs were also CD-only. However, there are certain older Macs that are officially supported by a Tiger (i.e., that have built-in FireWire) but don’t have optical drives that support DVDs – notably some low-end iBooks and early low-end eMacs. 2006 – Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ships on DVD media, which is great if you have a Mac equipped with a DVD drive (as most of us do these days), since the entire set of installer files can be contained on one disc, eliminating the necessity of disc-swapping in the middle of the process.
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