Lisbeth Zachs paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: >2004-07-29 kl. 02.18 skrev b: > >>Trying to boot Panther Installer from a firewire CD burner/reader, >>plugged into a Firewire 800 port in the PC card bus/slot (to no >>avail), >-------- >Assuming the firewire PC card works for other firewire connections, >perhaps a T-mode connection to a Mac with a working CD-player could >be worth a try. > >No knowledge that is does work. Only trying to come up with some >creative suggestions possible worth trying. :-) > >Lisbeth in Gothenburg Thanks Lisbeth, i've been thinking about that one too. The other idea I had was to give my external firewire drive to somebody, with the Installer discs, and let them use builtin firewire to install to the external... but that would necessitate usinf CarbonCopyCloner to move the install back to my internal drive... heheh, not sure how all that would play out. ~flipper