[X-Newbies] installing tiger from DVD onto a clamshell ibook

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On 20/2/2006 9:52 PM, "Stephen Kenda" <sk at interlog.com> wrote:

> Dear Reader,
> 
> I am new to X so need help. I have done some reading but still would
> really appreciate some advice!
> 
> First off, Have you ever installed tiger from a DVD onto a clamshell
> ibook. How did you do it?
> 
>  Secondly, How about a dual boot setup with Tiger and 9.2 on the
> clamshell -- will that work? The clamshell has 320mb ram /20g hd.  It is
> currently running panther on a single 20 g partition.
> 
> I was thinking to hook up an external usb 2 - DVD ROM player to the
> Ibook's usb port. (I have the Lacie Usb 2 CDROM that works with the
> ibook so i was thinking i could get a dvd rom player and swap out the
> CDR.)
> Then
> 1) I could boot the ibook with the ibook's CD player using a os 9.2
> install CD or a jaguar CD that I own.
> 2) format and partition the ibook.
> 3) install os 9.2 on the first partition
> 4) install Tiger from the DVD onto the second partition
> 
> will that work?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> stephen
> 
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As far as I know, Tiger will only install onto macs with a firewire port.
Does your clamshell have one?