is there still a place where one can get the osx 10.4 cd's? i'm picking up a pair of imacs within a couple weeks, one for sure is cd only, the other i'm not sure, and all i have is osx 10.4 on dvd. i dont have a firewire dvd drive, nor the means to get one at this point.
Put your Tiger DVD in a mac with a DVD drive. Restart that mac, and hold down "t" as it starts up. Connect a FireWire cable between the 2 macs. Start up the one without the DVD drive, and hold down the Option key. Select the OS X DVD icon, and press enter. You should be able to install any OS that is on a DVD this way..
On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:29 AM, "Dean VandenBurg" <dean.vandenb...@gmail.com
> wrote: > is there still a place where one can get the osx 10.4 cd's? i'm > picking up a pair of imacs within a couple weeks, one for sure is cd > only, the other i'm not sure, and all i have is osx 10.4 on dvd. i > dont have a firewire dvd drive, nor the means to get one at this > point.
On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Dean VandenBurg wrote:
> is there still a place where one can get the osx 10.4 cd's? i'm > picking up a pair of imacs within a couple weeks, one for sure is cd > only, the other i'm not sure, and all i have is osx 10.4 on dvd. i > dont have a firewire dvd drive, nor the means to get one at this > point.
<dean.vandenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > is there still a place where one can get the osx 10.4 cd's? i'm picking up > a pair of imacs within a couple weeks, one for sure is cd only, the other > i'm not sure, and all i have is osx 10.4 on dvd. i dont have a firewire dvd > drive, nor the means to get one at this point.
You could probably catch a copy on either eBay or craigslist
You could use Toast version 7 and above to make a copy of your DVD and it will give you the option to span the DVD into 2 CD's. No point in going out and buying another set when you can do it this way. I know this works because I done it with OS X and iLife '06 to back up my own personal copies.
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Dean VandenBurg > <dean.vandenb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> is there still a place where one can get the osx 10.4 cd's? i'm >> picking up >> a pair of imacs within a couple weeks, one for sure is cd only, the >> other >> i'm not sure, and all i have is osx 10.4 on dvd. i dont have a >> firewire dvd >> drive, nor the means to get one at this point.
> You could probably catch a copy on either eBay or craigslist
Yes but then will they be bootable and useable? The DVD version of the installer doesn't expect 2 CDs and moreover when a friend made me a copy of Tiger install DVD from her Macbook because I'd lost mine, I got an error on bootup saying I couldn't use it, and it wasn't even a 2-CD span. I'm very skeptical that someone will get away with this.
My recommendation, if it's possible, is to start the Macs in target mode if possible, and install Tiger via firewire- but if the mac is so old that it pre-dates DVD players- um, are you sure it'll be happy with Tiger, versus an older O/S?
On 7/14/08 12:08 AM, "Big Mac" <ronfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You could use Toast version 7 and above to make a copy of your DVD > and it will give you the option to span the DVD into 2 CD's. No point > in going out and buying another set when you can do it this way. I > know this works because I done it with OS X and iLife '06 to back up > my own personal copies.
> Good luck, > Ron
> On Jul 13, 2008, at 10:52 PM, John Musbach wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Dean VandenBurg >> <dean.vandenb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> is there still a place where one can get the osx 10.4 cd's? i'm >>> picking up >>> a pair of imacs within a couple weeks, one for sure is cd only, the >>> other >>> i'm not sure, and all i have is osx 10.4 on dvd. i dont have a >>> firewire dvd >>> drive, nor the means to get one at this point.
>> You could probably catch a copy on either eBay or craigslist
> Put your Tiger DVD in a mac with a DVD drive. Restart that mac, and > hold down "t" as it starts up. Connect a FireWire cable between the 2 > macs. Start up the one without the DVD drive, and hold down the Option > key. Select the OS X DVD icon, and press enter. You should be able to > install any OS that is on a DVD this way..
> On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:29 AM, "Dean VandenBurg" <dean.vandenb...@gmail.com > > wrote:
> > is there still a place where one can get the osx 10.4 cd's? i'm > > picking up a pair of imacs within a couple weeks, one for sure is cd > > only, the other i'm not sure, and all i have is osx 10.4 on dvd. i > > dont have a firewire dvd drive, nor the means to get one at this > > point.
