[X4U] Tiger Apr 29th

[John Baltutis]

On 04/14/05, Michael Winter <winter at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 3:28 PM, P. H. Adams wrote:
>> Tiger ships on a DVD, but if your Mac doesnít have a built-in DVD-ROM
>> player, youíll need CD media. When you buy Mac OS X Tiger, you qualify
>> to purchase Tiger CDs for only $9.95.
>
> I was hoping the DVD might have a method for creating a set of install
> CD's. The internal DVD-ROM drive on one of our old iMacs is dead, but
> it does have an external (Firewire) superdrive.
>
> Hmmm. I'm assuming it needs to be a built-in drive because you have to
> boot from the installation disk. Now I'm wondering how I'm going to
> work it on this iMac because I don't know if I can boot from the
> external drive regardless of format (CD vs. DVD). Guess I'll have to do
> a little experimenting tonight.
>
> Worst case, I guess I try hooking it up to the Quicksilver in Target
> Disk Mode and try it that way.

Put an install CD into your FW superdrive and see if it'll boot your
machine. If so, then you should be able to boot with an install DVD.