[X4U] Installing Panther on a ethernet network?

[Bob Geiger]

Thanks John. This sounds like the way to go. I printed out the 
"Transferring files between two computers using FireWire" page from 
Help. So, I would imagine that doing the installation of Panther I 
would see the iMac HD as a selection, no?

Bob


On Mar 21, 2005, at 6:09 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 03/21/05, Bob Geiger <rbgeiger at optonline.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have a problem with installing Panther on my brother-in-law's  iMac
>> DV 400mhz. After updating the firmware, I can not install Panther. I
>> suspect the internal CD drive might not be up to snuff and I am 
>> getting
>> prompts that an external firewire CD can not be used as the start up
>> disk. My idea now is to take the iMac to my home and hook it up to my
>> PowerMac via ethernet and try the installation from my machine's cd
>> drive. My question is this:
>>
>> Can anyone give me advise how to network the two macs together (I run
>> Panther, the iMac runs OS 9.2.1)?
>>
>> Can anyone give me advise how to do an install via the network?
>
> Use target disk mode instead (assumes both machine's have FireWire
> ports)-it's much faster than ethernet. See Help->Mac Help->target disk
> mode->Transferring files between two computers using FireWire
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