[X-Newbies] Installing Panther on a ethernet network?

[John Mee]

Not the networking answer but here's how I've done it. The DV has a 
firewire plug and should boot into target disk mode 
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583>and show up as a 
volume on your G4 which you will be able to install to when the G4 
boots off the install cd, you will need to get the firewire cable. Make 
sure to download and run the firmware update while you still have 9.2.1 
working.
<http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g3/>

John Mee
On Mar 21, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Bob Geiger 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?
>
>
> Thanks to all,