Installing Tiger with external DVD drive?

gibagiba
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
I got my copy of Tiger today for my first generation Flat Panel iMac G4, and I was shocked to find out that my iMac G4 has no DVD drive (only CD-RW). I'm wondering if it's possible to still install Tiger with:



1) an external DVD drive

2) another Mac with a DVD drive



I don't want to do the $9.99 mail in deal if I don't have to. I've also heard about installing Mac OS X on another Mac with DVD but select my iMac's HD (in Firewire Target Disk Mode) as the destination, but I really don't want to do that because my other Mac with DVD is a PowerBook, which I'm afraid will cause conflicts with configurations on the iMac.



TIA,

Eric

Comments

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    spiers69spiers69 Posts: 418member
    Giba did you ever get any answers for your questions, because id like to know the answers too.

    or can anyone else shed some light on this?

    thanks
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