![]() Doing it your way of booting off the dvd mounted on my mini from the G4 hung during boot, and installing it onto a G4 partition from my mini hung after rebooting subsequent to the install (exactly the same type, i.e. For the less prepared there are nondestructive repartitioning programs out there. In my case I had purposefully left a few gigabytes of unpartitioned space on my firewire drive for just such an occasion so I was able to use pdisk to add partitions being very careful not to remove any existing partitions I wanted to keep. Note that whatever partition you use for the destination will be completely erased so you may need to first repartition the disk to give yourself an empty 3-4 GB partition. I then blessed it and was able to hold down Option at startup to boot from it and install Tiger normally. ![]() Therefore, I created a few gigabyte partition on an external firewire drive and used asr to dump the contents of the downloaded DMG onto that partition. My main problem with this method is that I like to be able to use my PowerBook when installing Tiger on my test machine. ![]() Apple did periodically send out pressed DVDs but they were usually so far behind it was hardly worth it. ![]() ![]() I had to do this with the developer seeds as my Tiger test machine has a DVD-RAM and could not read the DVD-R discs I burned from my PowerBook 17. ![]()
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