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10.4: Install Tiger via Target Disk Mode
Authored by: @man on May 11, '05 09:33:47AM

it's kind of a long way around, but i only have (gasp!) one mac in my house (mine) and it's a clunky old g3 imac with a cd-rw drive. rather than lug it to my brother's house and set it up as a firewire target disk, i made a disk image of the dvd at his house then FTPed it to myself (we both have broadband, it didn't end up being that bad at all).

then i backed up my smallest partition of my internal hard drive into an external hard drive, restored the internal drive using the disk image of tiger, booted up from that drive and voila, i could install tiger no problem. it also took less time to install because it didn't rely on the speed of the disk drive.

sure, it's a pain, but i'm more than just a little pissed off that apple was making me jump through hoops because i didn't have a dvd drive. not only could i not just check a simple box on the apple website to get a CD, but then they wanted me to pay ten bucks more? ( i can understand not shipping them, but not offering them at the apple store site? stupid.) i considered downloading a copy of tiger off the internet and not giving them anything, just out of spite.

BrentT, i had quite a few problems for the last few days ion my g3 imac (600 mhz, slot cd-rw). tiger was running incredibly sluggish and i was considering going back to panther or sucking it up and doubling my memory to a gig just to get some speed back in my machine. turns out it was some seriously screwed up permissions which was causing it. everything is fine and quick again.



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