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Can I use an external DVD drive to load OS X on my iBook?
Macman said:yes, but he'd still have to pay the $130 for the tiger dvd, then ship it back to apple plus another 10 for the cost of the discs and a little more for s&h.
rgivans said:Can I use an external DVD drive to load OS X on my iBook?
Aptmunich said:Really? That worked?
Shouldn't a firewire dvd drive work as well then?
I know a usb dvd drive won't, but if target disk mode worked...
caribiner23 said:Well, it certainly seemed to work; I am typing this on a G3 iBook running Tiger right now.
Yes, using Target Disk Mode in this way works.
I have no idea if a Firewire DVD drive would work, since I don't own one.
rgivans said:Dude thats awesome news.
So I should be bale to hook up a External DVD Drive with a firewire and hold T at the start up. I dont have money for a new drive and someone I know has an external DVD drive they will let me use is why Im going this route. I opted for more RAM and decided to wait on the Combo Drive. Thanks for the help you guys. :headphone
caribiner23 said:That's not exactly what I said.
What I said was "if there's another Mac around, put it in target mode"-- in order to do what I did, you need two Macs and the second one needs to be in target mode. Read reply #7 above closely.
And as I told Aptmunich above, I don't know if an external firewire DVD drive would work since I never tried it.
caribiner23 said:If you have a DVD ROM drive connected to an iBook that's in Target Mode, you'll effectively have two disks connected to each other with no operating system between them. This will not allow you to load an OS.
All Target Mode does is make the media on a Mac available via Firewire to another box.
Since perhaps I didn't explain it clearly enough, let me try one more time. In this scenario, your iBook is iBook "A":
- You have an iBook (iBook "A") with a CD-ROM drive and you want to load Tiger on it. I assume it is shut off.
- Your Tiger media is on DVD.
- You get ahold of another iBook (iBook "B") that has a DVD ROM drive.
- Put the Tiger DVD into iBook "B" and shut it down.
- Plug a Firewire cable between iBooks "A" and "B."
- Boot iBook "B" into Target Mode (hold down the "T" key).
- Start up iBook "A" and hold the "Option" key down after the startup sound. You will see icons for the devices you can boot from. Click the icon for the Tiger Media, which is now mounted from iBook "B" and click the arrow.
- The installation process will begin.
This is the procedure I followed when I loaded Tiger onto my G3 iBook that does not have a DVD drive.
Hope this helps.
caribiner23 said:If you have a DVD ROM drive connected to an iBook that's in Target Mode, you'll effectively have two disks connected to each other with no operating system between them. This will not allow you to load an OS.
All Target Mode does is make the media on a Mac available via Firewire to another box.
Since perhaps I didn't explain it clearly enough, let me try one more time. In this scenario, your iBook is iBook "A":
- You have an iBook (iBook "A") with a CD-ROM drive and you want to load Tiger on it. I assume it is shut off.
- Your Tiger media is on DVD.
- You get ahold of another iBook (iBook "B") that has a DVD ROM drive.
- Put the Tiger DVD into iBook "B" and shut it down.
- Plug a Firewire cable between iBooks "A" and "B."
- Boot iBook "B" into Target Mode (hold down the "T" key).
- Start up iBook "A" and hold the "Option" key down after the startup sound. You will see icons for the devices you can boot from. Click the icon for the Tiger Media, which is now mounted from iBook "B" and click the arrow.
- The installation process will begin.
This is the procedure I followed when I loaded Tiger onto my G3 iBook that does not have a DVD drive.
Hope this helps.