Is there a way? 10.4 upgrade question.

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My son has an iMac G4 with a CD drive. It currently has OS-X 10.3 installed. I bought the 10.4 upgrade disk but is on a DVD and his iMac has just the CD reader. Do I need to return this DVD, which brings up another question, is there a 10.4 upgrade on CD? or can I burn this DVD to one CD?
 
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as 'schweb' said - there are cd version if you ask.
 
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Dillinger-63 said:
My son has an iMac G4 ..... there is no Firewire on his Mac.
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If you have an iMac G4, then there is most certainly a Firewire port on that iMac.
Is this one of the "desklamp" iMacs, or is it one of the "gumdrop" ones? If it is the latter, then that is a G3. Even so, the later G3 iMacs had FW ports as well. You might want to double-check the ports to be sure.
 
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Well you could use your iMac or MBP for this.

Just insert the DVD in the optical drive of either one of those and connect your son's G4 iMac via a FireWire cable using the Target Disk mode.

I have a G4 iMac and have a FireWire port.

DOH! DB posted before I did. Yeah the iLamp iMac has a FireWire port. Two of them in fact, I just checked. :girl:
 
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MacHeadCase said:
Well you could use your iMac or MBP for this.

Just insert the DVD in the optical drive of either one of those and connect your son's G4 iMac via a FireWire cable using the Target Disk mode.

I have a G4 iMac and have a FireWire port.

DOH! DB posted before I did. Yeah the iLamp iMac has a FireWire port. Two of them in fact, I just checked. :girl:
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Yep, there is in fact two Firewire ports. I'll go back and read the link on the post Schweb did to install 10.4
 

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