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So here’s my dilemma. I’m downloaded the DVD image for OS X Tiger (because my mailing still hasn’t arrived). I do not have a DVD burner. Anywhere. Now, how can I install this over the network? Target disk mode will not be useful for me, but NetRestore might help, except I need a generic OS X installation around somewhere (it seems to suggest 10.4, Tiger, which I don’t have!). If this was Fedora, I could just burn the boot.iso, and loopback mount the image! Any Mac heads know a solution? I don’t mind an ugly OF based solution either; except I can’t boot the dmg via tftpboot? Update: The mailing arrived. Of course, I decided to do a nice clean reinstallation, so I repartitioned. Guess what? No sight of 10.3 on disk means 10.4 won’t install. Urgh, nowhere on the DVD does it say “upgrade”.
Looked at some Extras failures, after Jeremy kicked off a rebuild. Most of the PPC related ones have attached logs to them now, and some made it to a post-it note as “solving hopefuls”. Low hanging fruit might best be ExclusiveArch’ed. Also noticing a lot of PPC related inquiries going to fedora-test-list, rather than fedora-ppc list – this needs to change! In other news, I’m playing around with the wiki for Supported Power PCs – i.e. whatever we support well, or we don’t support, should be listed here on a colloborative wiki page.
Was looking into buying a PDA – either a Tungsten E2 or some other offering from Palm. Now it looks like I’ll just wait, save up, and buy the Nokia 770, and get on with maemo. Its so nice to make sure you have something that always “just works” – not to say that Familiar isn’t just working at the moment (the upgrade from 0.72 was so welcome).
Bought a firewire cable today – the iBook G3 got Tiger installed via Firewire target disk mode. X11 can get installed that way too, but XCode2 wouldn’t. Weirdness. Got nice e-mail from the asiasource folk, and there’s the AsiaSource booklet, written by Frederick Noronha thats a worthy read as well.
You can use Disk Utility to restore the DMG to a spare hard drive. Then you can boot from that spare hard drive and install Tiger.
I know this is an old entry, but it reminded me of my installation of tiger. I couldn’t boot off the DVD thanks to a hosed drive in my powerbook. So, feeling frisky, I hooked my powerbook in target mode to my mini, and just started the install from it instead; choosing the powerbook’s mounted drive as the target. After the install was done, I rebooted the powerbook and there was Tiger.
Don’t try that at home without a backup :-)
I know this is an old entry, but it reminded me of my installation of tiger. I couldn't boot off the DVD thanks to a hosed drive in my powerbook. So, feeling frisky, I hooked my powerbook in target mode to my mini, and just started the install from it instead; choosing the powerbook's mounted drive as the target. After the install was done, I rebooted the powerbook and there was Tiger.
Don't try that at home without a backup :-)