[G4] What works on Tiger and does not?

[John McClernan]

You can netboot, sure.  But I don't think you can install from a remote DVD,
if that's what you're suggesting.


> From: "Daniel Brieck Jr." <djbrieck at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:56:21 -0400
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
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> Subject: Re: [G4] What works on Tiger and does not?
> 
> 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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