Didn't think that I would be back so soon but.....

Our iMac G4 runs OSX10.2.8 and I wanted to upgrade to the 10.4 Tiger.

My Apple shop tells me that Tiger is a DVD install and I don't have a DVD player on my G4. They tell me that I can't install a DVD player until I run 10.4 but I can't........ Catch 22


Any ideas ?

Brian

 

You could go out and buy a pc

 

or get a firewire external DVD drive

 

A DVD drive from your PC (if you have one) should work.
I did exactly that not a week ago on my old G4.

 

... and I have an external DVD drive whic it would not boot off for some reason.... hence why I took one out the PC.....

 

Ah, sorry, saw you have an iMac....
Not quite sure what to do there.

Are you confident enough to take the iMac apart to remove the CD drive?

 

2 options on how to "force" boot from CD/DVD

Restart your computer and immediately press Cmd-Option-Shift-Delete. You must press all the keys at once. The computer will start to boot from the CD or DVD drive. If there isn't a bootable disc inside the drive when you begin the reboot, the computer will attempt to boot from another partition or drive.


Restart your computer and immediately press the c key. The computer will look for a bootable CD or DVD and, if it finds one, will use it as its startup device.

HTH

Dan

 

Tiger does, by default, ship on DVD, which does present problems to those of us who don't have DVD drives in our machines. It is possible to exchanged the DVD for CD's, have a look here

Another option would be an external firewire or usb DVD drive.

 

Thanks again everyone, I can now resolve the issue.

Brian