[olug] A Mac Question

[Adam Lassek]

Apple's offer to exchange the tiger DVD for CDs has expired, so you
probably won't be able to do that.

On 10/7/06, Christopher R. White <slaeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my experience, only Sawtooth and higher G4s (or G3s released after
> them) can use FireWire Target disk mode.  Alternatively, you can try to
> find a copy of 10.4 on CD (bittorrent?) or exchange your copy on DVD for
> a CD set from Apple (for a slight fee of course).  If none of the above
> seems viable, removing the drive and placing it into another machine is
> probably the best bet.  It's an easy process and OS X installs with all
> the files needed to run every mac made by default.
>
> Matthew Anderson 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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