[X4U] Installation despite dead PB CD player

[Daly Jessup]

>I have a pismo whose CD player might have gone belly up.
>This machine really thrives on Panther, but my other Macs do not 
>support Panther, and I'm trying to figure out how I can do things 
>like run disk utilities on the pismo  from another disk, or 
>eventually to re-install the OS or other CD based software.
>
>any thoughts?  I know that I can reboot the pismo in Target mode, 
>but then how to get  around my other macs' lack of Panther support?

How about an external drive onto which you install Panther plus all 
its updates plus all the utilities you want to use?

Daly
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