[G4] Panther on G4

[Philip J Robar]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 8:45 PM, Roland Rogers wrote:

> My G4-466 (no DVD) presently has OS 9.1.1. I purchased OS 10.3 on  
> eBay, and
> although the seller told me Panther was on CDs, I find the disks  
> are DVDs
> and labeled iMac. Looking forward to Tiger, etc, I bought a DVD  
> burner. My
> G4 "sees" the DVD burner, and will handle CDs.

By this should we should assume that you mean that a data or audio CD  
shows up on the desktop and is browse-able when put into the DVD drive?

> How do I get it to operate with DVDs?

So when you put the Panther DVD into the DVD drive it doesn't show up  
on the desktop? Does the drive do anything - flashing access light,  
whirling noises, etc.?

Do you know anyone that has a working DVD drive that you can test the  
DVD in so as to be sure that it's actually readable?

Basically just about any CD or DVD drive should work under OS X with  
read-only discs. And most burners should work in Tiger without  
installing Patchburn.


Phil
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