[G4] What works on Tiger and does not?

Daniel Brieck Jr. djbrieck at mac.com
Sat Apr 30 15:56:21 PDT 2005


Here is a better idea, can we boot from remote CD in mac os 10. I know 
mac os 10 supports Net-boot...


On Apr 30, 2005, at 9:48 AM, John McClernan wrote:

> Dan,
> You can use Disk Utility to make a disk image, then transport it over 
> to
> your G3. If you have them networked, it's easy to do via iChat. If you
> don't, you'll have to have a large enough portable drive (such as a
> firewire, for speed) to store it on. I can almost guarantee that the 
> disk
> image would be too large for a CD-R. I don't know if you would have to 
> have
> the installer on such an external source in order to install, since I 
> don't
> own Tiger.
> My 2¢
> John
>
>> From: "Daniel Brieck Jr." <djbrieck at mac.com>
>> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
>> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:28:27 -0400
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
>> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: [G4] What works on Tiger and does not?
>>
>> I will get my Tiger update as soon as it is available from Penn State?
>> It is $15 for PSU students, use to be free but I am guessing I am
>> paying for the DVD media now.
>>
>> Speaking of DVD media, what do users of macs without DVD drives have 
>> to
>> do to install? Are there CD images available?  My G4 has A DVD drive,
>> but my g3 imac does not... They forget to mention DVD drive required
>> under Tiger's system requirements or do they...
>>
>> I will install Tiger as soon as I know Dantz Retrospect will work with
>> it? That also shows that Apple is doing a lot of under the hood
>> changes, because generally when every 10.x upgrade comes out it breaks
>> the Retrospect Backup software. I can understand why some don't want 
>> to
>> jump the gun on installing a new OS upgrade... It makes me mad too 
>> when
>> things don't work after an upgrade.
>
>> Dan Brieck Jr.
>
>
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