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<blockquote data-quote="caribiner23" data-source="post: 144253" data-attributes="member: 9169"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>All Target Mode does is make the media on a Mac available via Firewire to another box.</p><p></p><p>Since perhaps I didn't explain it clearly enough, let me try one more time. In this scenario, your iBook is iBook "A":</p><p></p><p>- 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.</p><p></p><p>- Your Tiger media is on DVD.</p><p></p><p>- You get ahold of <em>another</em> iBook (iBook "B") that <em>has</em> a DVD ROM drive.</p><p></p><p>- Put the Tiger DVD into iBook "B" and shut it down.</p><p></p><p>- Plug a Firewire cable between iBooks "A" and "B."</p><p></p><p>- Boot iBook "B" into Target Mode (hold down the "T" key).</p><p></p><p>- 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.</p><p></p><p>- The installation process will begin.</p><p></p><p>This is the procedure I followed when I loaded Tiger onto my G3 iBook that does not have a DVD drive.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="caribiner23, post: 144253, member: 9169"] 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 [i]another[/i] iBook (iBook "B") that [i]has[/i] 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. [/QUOTE]
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