[iBook] OS X 10.4 question

Gregory Martinez gregmartinez at mac.com
Thu Jul 14 10:48:34 PDT 2005


I always get confused as to which computer is the "Target."

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Greg Martinez
gregmartinez at mac.com
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iMac G5, 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM
PowerBook, 1.5 GHz, 768 MB RAM
OS 10.4.1

On Jul 14, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Kurt Cypher wrote:

> David Harris wrote:
>
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> Yes, it's a USB drive. If I can get it on a iBook and link them  
>> together with my FireWire cable, can I do it. I'll just have to  
>> make sure that the Mac with the Combo drive is set up as the  
>> target drive. Anyone, please let me know if I am correct. As a  
>> side note, could I have used an external FireWire DVD-ROM?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> DMJH
>>
>>
> I'm not sure that you'd be able to see the combo drive if it's on  
> the Mac that's in target mode.  I've read elsewhere about people  
> putting the Mac to be upgraded into target mode & installing to  
> that "external drive" from the Mac with the DVD drive.
>
> Kurt
>
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