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

[Stephen Kenda]

no, I do not have a firewire port. it's a 300 mhz clamshell with one usb
port.


>Gen Hadlow Mac Impact Dbn <ghadlow at iafrica.com> replied

>As far as I know, Tiger will only install onto macs with a firewire
port.
>Does your clamshell have one?

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

>>
>> 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
>