[olug] A Mac Question

[Adam Lassek]

OS 10.4.5 and later support third-party DVD drives, you can probably
get away with a standard drive rather than a more expensive mac
specific one.

Some G3's will in fact do Target Mode; I just did it on a G3 iBook a
few hours ago. It depends on the machine. I've never seen a G4 that
didn't support target mode.

On 10/7/06, Matthew Anderson <manders2k.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that Tiger will run fine on this machine, but to
> install it you'd need to put the HDD destined for the G3 in a newer
> mac (a G4 or G5 PowerMac with an IDE bus) with a DVD drive and
> install it there.  Or get an external firewire enclosure, put the
> drive in that, and hook it up to a newer mac that can boot on
> firewire.  Then just pull it back out and put it in the G3.  You
> probably could also upgrade the machine with a mac compatible DVD
> drive, though I don't know if there are any gotchas in doing that
> (never done it).
>
> I don't think any G3s have a target disk mode (unfortunately).  The
> first G4 (Yikes!) model doesn't have target disk mode either --
> everything newer than that though does I believe.
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Joe Gulizia wrote:
>
> > We have a PowerMac G3 at work where the hard drive has
> > gone bad.  We can't get a new hard drive to boot and
> > have no idea where the OS disk for the machine is.  We
> > do have a newer version of MAC OS X (10.4.6 on
> > DVD)...The machine doesn't have a DVD drive just a CD
> > drive.
> >
> > We have tried Ubuntu PowerPC but not sure if the disc
> > image(ISO)that was burnt is correct or bootable.
> >
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