[X4U] Installing Panther on a ethernet network?

[John Baltutis]

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