How To: Installing Tiger sans DVD

[Hank_Reardon]

I've seen many posts concerning Apple's decision to ship Mac OS X 10.4 exclusively on DVD. While I understand that Apple has offered its customers a $10 exchange option to "downgrade" to CDs, I would like to post a second option for those more adventurous types. You can actually install Mac OS X Tiger from your iPod! What does this require?

1. Tiger install DVD
2. A friend's Mac with a DVD drive
3. An iPod with a firewire cable (not sure about USB2.0... haven't tested it).

I should also add that any external hard drive will also work for this. The data currently stored on the hard drive your your iPod will not be modified. Anyway, without further adieu, the steps:

1. Connect your iPod to a Mac with a DVD drive and ensure that you have enabled mounting of your iPod as a disk. You should also insert the Tiger DVD.
2. Launch Apple's Disk Utility applet, found in /Applications/Utilities/
3. Choose any disk listed on the left hand side and select the "Restore" tab.
4. Here you will see a "Source:" field and a "Destination:" field. On the left you should be able to find your iPod drive and your Tiger DVD. You want to drag the Tiger DVD to the "Source:" field and the iPod drive to the "Destination:" field.
5. Next click Restore. You need not check "Erase Destination" unless you just want to.

Once that process has completed, your iPod will be a fully bootable Tiger installation image. Simply plug your iPod into the system onto which you'd like to install Tiger, pull up the Startup Disk applet in the System Preferences, and the iPod will appear in the list of available start up volumes (assuming once again you have enabled mounting of your iPod as a hard drive). Select it, click restart and proceed with installation.

There are a few additional nuances and implications to this method. First of all, you can also use a disk image to restore your iPod. If you have trouble using the aforementioned methodology you can first generate an image of your install DVD, then mount that image and then use the mounted volume as the source.

Second, since most external hard drives, iPod included, are faster than most internal DVD-rom drives (my iBook's included), this method can greatly decrease the requisite install time (not taking into account the time invested preparing the volume). If you must install Tiger on multiple machines and would like to avoid the dangers of scuffing the disk or would like to decrease the wait time, this is also a viable option.

Lastly, and in my opinion most interestingly, this is a good method of making an install partition. Once you get the system to boot off the iPod (or external hard drive), if you have made a disk image of your install DVD you can easily use Apple's disk tools to format a small 3 gig-or-so partition and restore it with the install DVD's image. This way if in the future you need to do a fresh Tiger install, you can simply boot off of this partition and zap, new system in no time.

Alright... that's it. :) Hope this wasn't too confusing or too obvious. Happy Tiger'ing.

[LeeTom]

kickass!

[asa_nisi_masa]

You could just boot into Firewire Target Disk mode and install from the DVD on the other computer. Fewer steps.

Hopefully, a version of Slipy (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24178) will be available for Tiger soon...

[Klondijk]

i tried this on a Bondi iMac (I know, I know, USB 1.1, not supported, blah blah)and surprisingly, I WAS able to boot off of the iPod, but the installer ran a script and then wouldn't proceed. Interestingly, the reason given was "Mail cannot run on this computer". I'm going to pull the hard drive tomorrow, install Tiger, throw it back in, and see what happens.

[Klondijk]

I pulled the hard drive, installed Tiger, put it back in, and everything's fine. I'm running at 800x600, because it makes everything much snappier, but Tiger is just as usable as Panther was on this machine (iMac 233, 512mb, 6vram), and some things (Safari, Mail, and especially searching are quite a bit faster, but then again I wiped the hard drive, so it's a nice crispy-fresh install).

[markoibook]

I pulled the hard drive, installed Tiger, put it back in, and everything's fine. I'm running at 800x600, because it makes everything much snappier, but Tiger is just as usable as Panther was on this machine (iMac 233, 512mb, 6vram), and some things (Safari, Mail, and especially searching are quite a bit faster, but then again I wiped the hard drive, so it's a nice crispy-fresh install).

How do you find the performance of spotlight on that machine? I.e. how long does it take to perform a typical search, and is spotlight very responsive? Also, how does the dashboard run on it?

[5300cs]

Alright... that's it. :) Hope this wasn't too confusing or too obvious. Happy Tiger'ing.

Followed these instructions and it worked like a charm. I installed Tiger on my 800mhz G3 iBook with no snafus whatsoever!

Thanks!! :)

[Klondijk]

So far, Spotlight works fine, I'm finding it's faster to launch applications that aren't in the dock by command-space and typing the name, then hitting return than it is to navigate to them. I have a couple of thousand mail messages that spotlight has no problems with, but I haven't filled the hard drive back up very much yet (I'm only using about 4 gigs), so we'll see how it goes. Dashboard seems to work fine, it isn't quite as quick to open as on the FP iMac, but it's absolutely usable (it's a little dark, but then, everything is on this elderly CRT). Again, everything works quite a bit better in 800X600, I'd really recommend making that your default resolution to run Tiger (or Panther, for that matter). Also note that I used the customize install to skip languages and printer drivers, saving about a gig and half of the scarce bootable partition on this machine.

[Joeycolon]

Hi,
I have Mac OS X 10.2.8 and when i open disc utility there is no restore tab... does anyone know how to do the restore function on this machine?

[yippy]

10.2 doesn't have the restore function. What you can do is use Carbon Copy Cloner, it does the same thing. Find it at www.bombich.com.

[Joeycolon]

yippy bombich's carbon copy does not recognize my firewire iPod or my usb ipod... i read the forms on CCC website and others were complaining about the same issue... your help is greatly apreciated, if you know of any other programs that do the same thing or what type of program this is so i can search for other one which would do the same thing... thanks for all your help

[Blue Velvet]

yippy bombich's carbon copy does not recognize my firewire iPod or my usb ipod... i read the forms on CCC website and others were complaining about the same issue... your help is greatly apreciated, if you know of any other programs that do the same thing or what type of program this is so i can search for other one which would do the same thing... thanks for all your help

Try SuperDuper!
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Just updated for Tiger. Demo lets you clone -- full version much more.

[billyb]

You could just boot into Firewire Target Disk mode and install from the DVD on the other computer. Fewer steps.

Hopefully, a version of Slipy (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24178) will be available for Tiger soon...

This is what I'm trying to do. Let's say the computer with the DVD drive is computer A, and the computer with the CDROM drive (only) is Computer B. I want to install Tiger on computer B. Do I:

a) put the DVD in Computer A, turn off that computer, plug it by FW into Computer B, and then start Computer A in Target Disk Mode? And then use Computer B to access Computer A's DVD drive and install that way? Or, do I

b) put the DVD in Computer A, turn off Computer B, connect the FW, start Computer B in Target Disk Mode, and then use Computer A to install Tiger onto the FW disk (computer B)?

I'm not sure which way is correct.

A completely different alternative. If I have a normal external FW drive, can I use Computer A to install Tiger onto THAT drive, then plug the drive into Computer B? How do I make Computer B able to run Tiger without needing to be plugged into Computer A or the normal FW hard drive?

Sorry for the confusion,

bb

[toughboy]

i wonder if this works with the Tiger which can be downloaded as a torrent, or if we have to have the original install dvd....

[5300cs]

i wonder if this works with the Tiger which can be downloaded as a torrent, or if we have to have the original install dvd....

I hope you don't mean an *gasp* illegal version

[mwdmeyer]

I tried to do this on my windows formatted ipod (from my mac) but while copying the files it failed and said cannot find file.

Is this because my ipod is formatted for Windows (and therefore the filesystem doesn't support it?)


Thanks.

EDIT: Just formatted it to the mac file system and it is working now.

So you cannot do it on a FAT32 formatted IPOD.

[Klondijk]

I've got an old USB 1.1 external hard drive, and decided to see if I could boot another older iMac (slot-loading 350) off of that. I used Disk Utility to restore to the old 2.5 drive from the Tiger .dmg, and then tried to use the Start-up disk preference pane to restart the mac from the external drive, but Panther wouldn't allow it. However, if you hold down the option key at restart, and then wait a minute or two, the external disk IS selectable to start up from, and installation after that was completely normal (albeit a bit slower: without the extra languages and printer drivers, it took about 35 minutes). Tiger runs ok on this mac, at 800X600 it runs perfectly (Dashboard was a little slow at 1024).

[jelloshotsrule]

This is what I'm trying to do. Let's say the computer with the DVD drive is computer A, and the computer with the CDROM drive (only) is Computer B. I want to install Tiger on computer B. Do I:

a) put the DVD in Computer A, turn off that computer, plug it by FW into Computer B, and then start Computer A in Target Disk Mode? And then use Computer B to access Computer A's DVD drive and install that way? Or, do I

b) put the DVD in Computer A, turn off Computer B, connect the FW, start Computer B in Target Disk Mode, and then use Computer A to install Tiger onto the FW disk (computer B)?

I'm not sure which way is correct.

A completely different alternative. If I have a normal external FW drive, can I use Computer A to install Tiger onto THAT drive, then plug the drive into Computer B? How do I make Computer B able to run Tiger without needing to be plugged into Computer A or the normal FW hard drive?

Sorry for the confusion,

bb

you want option b.

turn off computer b. start it up while holding t. computer a is on, and has tiger disc in. plug b into a with firewire, and it will show up on desktop. open tiger installer on a and it'll restart from the disc, then install on hd in computer b. bam!

[jimthorn]

I just want to reassure anyone wanting to install from one Mac to another that it does work. My friend owns a 600Mhz iMac G3 with only a CD-RW and he bought Tiger on release night. He came to me the next day asking me if I could install it on his machine even though he doesn't have a DVD drive. I booted his machine in Firewire Target Disk mode and connected it by firewire to my old 900 Mhz iBook G3 with combo drive. I popped the Tiger disk into my iBook, chose his iMac's disk as the install destination and about thirty minutes later it finished. I rebooted his iMac and it runs beautifully. Yet another example of Apple hardware/software working exactly as it should.

One more thing -- his old iMac runs well on Tiger. No "eye candy" effects, but the OS is pretty snappy.

Also, I didn't have Tiger installed on my iBook and I still don't. That has no effect on installing the OS to another machine.

[Gerg]

Weird. Each time I've tried to do this, it fails. I see the iPod and the DVD in Disk Utility, I drag & drop and click "Restore." The Disk Utility starts to churn, asks for my password, then unmounts both the iPod and the DVD (I see them disappear from the desktop, and they become grayed-out in Disk Utility), which ends up in a failure (An error (5) occurred while copying. (Input/output error))

I'm doing this on my Mini and my 10GB iPod, which I've erased for this operation.

[Gerg]

OK, I got past this error. I had used Disk Utility to erase the iPod, but then it wasn't happy. I had to let iPod Updater restore the iPod settings and flash firmware, then I was able to restore the Tiger DVD to the iPod.

Turns out my B&W G3 can't boot from a Firewire drive, so unless anyone has any brilliant ideas, I'll have to request CD's from Apple & return my DVD.

Bummer.

[Klondijk]

On my legacy iMacs, Start-up disk refused to restart from an external drive, but if I restarted holding down the option key, the disk appeared (eventually, give it a couple of minutes), I could select it, and the installation proceeded apace. I have had a couple of crashes on the 233 Bondi imac in a week, but I don't know if this is Tiger-related or not.

[panphage]

Does this affect the iPod's 'normal' function at all? I mean, will I be able to use it as an iPod still?

[Gerg]

I had to delete all my music from my iPod to get Tiger to fit, but I'll just hook it back into the Mini when I'm done and let it update itself again. For me, this is a one-time only operation.

[kubark42]

I just downloaded the dmg from Mac's website (they posted it today for Student ADC members), and am having more or less the same problem, that of installing on a machine when there's no DVD. In fact, my PB has a DVD player, but I have no Mac that has a DVD burner, so I'm going to give it a shot this way.

I'll keep you guys posted.

[James Farnham]

Try this, i used this to install Tiger from an iPod on two different machines. First, use disk utility to completely format the ipod, so that there is nothing at all on it. Do not use itunes to set it up, keep it as it is blank.

Apple and I on it to bring up the info window, then uncheck "ignore ownership on this volume".

Now, fire up the terminal, and type:

sudo asr -source /pathtodmg -target /pathtoipod -noverify

to get the paths, just drag the .dmg and the ipod onto the window at those points.

Now press enter, stick in your password, and the ipod will be correctly imaged. Then run the installer from ipod.

:edit: crap, you may need to use -nocheck instead of noverify in some cases, it'll tell you if it wants t'other

[wPod]

it worked well, i used this with a fw drive and was able to load 10.4 on an old 500 mhz iBook that only had a CD rom. it works! using the fw drive was almost as fast as loading tiger onto my PB from the DVD.

[trainguy77]

I just downloaded the dmg from Mac's website (they posted it today for Student ADC members), and am having more or less the same problem, that of installing on a machine when there's no DVD. In fact, my PB has a DVD player, but I have no Mac that has a DVD burner, so I'm going to give it a shot this way.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Do you need to buy tiger if you download from the site?

Also how does it run on the imac 600? Is it better then 10.2? Maybe i should pick up a copy for my brother.

[adairje]

For what it's worth, I would like to share my own experience with installing Tiger on a G3 iBook with 800 MHz processor and a CD-ROM drive. I used FireWire Target Disk mode to do the job. Basically, I shut down the iBook, connected it to my G4 iMac flat-panel (which was already on) via a FireWire cable, and then hit the power button on the iBook while holding down the "T" key until the FireWire icon appeared. At that point, the iBook's hard drive appeared on the iMac's desktop just like it's supposed to work. It was kind of interesting just watching the FireWire icon bounce around the iBook's screen during the install, though.

After I had the computers connected to each other, I inserted my Tiger DVD, rebooted, and was able to install directly onto the iBook's hard drive. On completion, the iMac automatically booted up from the iBook's hard drive. When I was finished with the registration stuff, I simply reset the startup disk to my iMac's hard drive and rebooted. After the reboot, I simply dragged the iBook's hard drive icon to the trash and then pushed down the iBook's power button until it turned off. I was then able to reboot the iBook with Tiger.

Also, FWIW, I used the "archive and install" option on the iBook and it seemed to work well. I also repaired permissions before doing anything else on the iBook.

Hope this may be useful to someone else on this forum. I thank the previous posters very much because you saved me both time and possibly money - I was looking into buying either an external LaCie DVD burner or upgrading the CD-R drive to a DVD-RW using an update that is provided by MCE Technologies). No need to do that now. :)

[chatin]

I used the disk utility on the Tiger upgrade CD to erase my 80 gb mac mini drive only to find out that an 10.3 is required to be installed before upgrading!!

Now I can't get the upgrade disk out of the drive! The keyboard eject doesn't work. I will dig out a paper clip and try to find the hidden eject but am seriously considering returning the mini to Apple. :(

[trainguy77]

I used the disk utility on the Tiger upgrade CD to erase my 80 gb mac mini drive only to find out that an 10.3 is required to be installed before upgrading!!

Now I can't get the upgrade disk out of the drive! The keyboard eject doesn't work. I will dig out a paper clip and try to find the hidden eject but am seriously considering returning the mini to Apple. :(

Hold down the mouse when you boot up. It should kick the CD out. :)

[chatin]

Hold down the mouse when you boot up. It should kick the CD out. :)

That worked! Thank you so much!! :p

[kubark42]

I used the disk utility on the Tiger upgrade CD to erase my 80 gb mac mini drive only to find out that an 10.3 is required to be installed before upgrading!!

I seem to remember that when upgrading my roomie's Mini, the upgrade CD required Panther but let me do an Erase & Install nonetheless. You might try reinstalling Panther and then rebooting with the Tiger upgrade CD to see if it doesn't give you the option of Erase & Install.

[rwk001]

Something weird happened to me installing Tiger on an older G4 Tower with only a CD-RW. After installing Tiger, my newer G5 rev B DP2.0 then came up with the screen from my old computer, and I couldn't eject the target disk! I tried eject my host computer HD and it disappeared! Aaaaah!!!

Turning off the Target computer simply made my new computer totally stall because it was acting as if the target HD was now its default HD. So I had to turn on my target computer back into Target mode, reboot my host computer which was using the Target HD as the default, then go to System Preferences and select my "old" host HD as the default drive, reboot, and voila! it worked as reported.

Apparently, the installation of Tiger had made the Target HD the default. Hope this helps the next person in case this happens to them.

[xgdfalcon]

Is there a solution when you only own 1 Mac and it doesn't have a DVD drive?

[kubark42]

Is there a solution when you only own 1 Mac and it doesn't have a DVD drive?

Not if you don't have somewhere, somehow another hard disk that the mac can recognize and mount on firewire. If you have a firewire external disc, for example.

Kenn

[MacRy]

Not if you don't have somewhere, somehow another hard disk that the mac can recognize and mount on firewire. If you have a firewire external disc, for example.

Kenn

I'm in the same position as this poster in so far as I don't have another Mac or external hard drive. I do have a USB DVD drive but it doesn't seem to work from that. Is there any way to make it use that drive? Alternatively is there a way to create my own set of cd's from the original disk image using toast or something?

[California]

Wait -- I need a dvd BURNER to install Tiger? Is this right? How about installing it then on my tibook 500 with only a cd/dvd rom drive? Sticking with Panther until then...

[zelmo]

Wait -- I need a dvd BURNER to install Tiger? Is this right? How about installing it then on my tibook 500 with only a cd/dvd rom drive? Sticking with Panther until then...

You don't need a burner, just a DVD drive to read the standard issue Tiger install DVD.

BTW, I just used this great tip to install Tiger onto a 700MHz iMac G4 that only had a CD-RW drive on it. Worked like a charm. I'll probably keep Tiger on my iPod and use it to install the other 15 Tiger licenses we have at work. Seemed pretty snappy.

[marleyg]

I tried creating a bootable Tiger install disk on a FireWird drive using the command:

sudo asr -source /pathtodmg -target /pathtoiFWDrive -noverify

The response was:

asr: did not copy blessed information to target, which may have missing or out-of-date blessed folder information.

I am running 10.4.2 on my G4 Mac. I used Disk Utility to create the dmg on a separate internal drive. I also unchecked "ignore ownership on this volume" in the Ifno window for the FireWire drive.

Any suggestions?

[trainguy77]

Have you tried doing a restore to the firewire drive from disk utility?

[marleyg]

I looked at Disk Utility, but don't see an option for Restore. The only reference I see to Restore in Disk Utility is: Scan Image for Restore.

I had previously created a disk image of the Tiger DVD on my 2nd internal HD, which I named TigerInstall. Clicking the Scan Image for Restore option gives the following error:

Unable to scan "TigerInstall.cdr" - Invalid argument.

Can you elaborate on how to get a properly formatted image of the Tiger Install DVD and restore it to a FireWire drive?

Marley

[trainguy77]

I have never tried this. I also run 10.3 so it might have changed:

When you select the drive to restore to it has a row of buttons at the top one says restore, the button is where it says first aid, and erase.

Hope this helps!

[marleyg]

Well, I think I have a working copy of the Tiger Install DVD on my FireWire drive now. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to make an image of the DVD on my internal HD and to prepare it for Restore using Apple Disk Utility. Then, using the Restore tab (as trainguy77 pointed out) I restored the disk image onto my FireWire drive. I double-clicked on the install icon & then clicked restart. I went through the restart procedure & up to the point where it would start to install. I stopped there, because I did not want to reinstall on my main system, but it looks like it would work.

Thanks trainguy77; I'll post if there is are problems with a real install.

Marley Graham

[kewyn15]

Hello People,

********How can I Install tiger on my iBook with what I've got?*********

iBook 600Mhz with firewire and networked to PC
PC - Dvd drive
Tiger Dvd
Tiger .dmg and .iso image
I can also get hold of an external firewire hard disk

I've burned an image of the dvd in .dmg from my PC and used my iBook OS X 10.1.5 to transfer it over using the network. BY THE WAY! The dvd is an original

Can someone work out something????
:)

[webgurly]

I'm going to kill my mac
I have external FW Dvdr because internal dvd broke. Using 10.2 and used Carbon Copy to copy os DVD to my ipod. I restarted my comp with ipod as startup disk. Then it was a big apple for a long time (more than 10 mins). I restarted it again but pressed option this time, got the startup disk options but this time there is an x icon instead of the apple picture. I'm at my wits end here..im a pc girl w/ big mac probs. Help!

[trainguy77]

Why don't you plug the FW DVD drive into the computer and try booting that way?

[webgurly]

I tried booting from fw dvd drive, but it just goes into regular os x start up. I also did holding option key but fw drive didnt show up. I even changed my startup to the tiger disk in the fw dvd drive but still goes into os. Help!

[kcool]

I've seen many posts concerning Apple's decision to ship Mac OS X 10.4 exclusively on DVD. While I understand that Apple has offered its customers a $10 exchange option to "downgrade" to CDs, I would like to post a second option for those more adventurous types. You can actually install Mac OS X Tiger from your iPod! What does this require?

1. Tiger install DVD
2. A friend's Mac with a DVD drive
3. An iPod with a firewire cable (not sure about USB2.0... haven't tested it).

I should also add that any external hard drive will also work for this. The data currently stored on the hard drive your your iPod will not be modified. Anyway, without further adieu, the steps:

1. Connect your iPod to a Mac with a DVD drive and ensure that you have enabled mounting of your iPod as a disk. You should also insert the Tiger DVD.
2. Launch Apple's Disk Utility applet, found in /Applications/Utilities/
3. Choose any disk listed on the left hand side and select the "Restore" tab.
4. Here you will see a "Source:" field and a "Destination:" field. On the left you should be able to find your iPod drive and your Tiger DVD. You want to drag the Tiger DVD to the "Source:" field and the iPod drive to the "Destination:" field.
5. Next click Restore. You need not check "Erase Destination" unless you just want to.

Once that process has completed, your iPod will be a fully bootable Tiger installation image. Simply plug your iPod into the system onto which you'd like to install Tiger, pull up the Startup Disk applet in the System Preferences, and the iPod will appear in the list of available start up volumes (assuming once again you have enabled mounting of your iPod as a hard drive). Select it, click restart and proceed with installation.

There are a few additional nuances and implications to this method. First of all, you can also use a disk image to restore your iPod. If you have trouble using the aforementioned methodology you can first generate an image of your install DVD, then mount that image and then use the mounted volume as the source.

Second, since most external hard drives, iPod included, are faster than most internal DVD-rom drives (my iBook's included), this method can greatly decrease the requisite install time (not taking into account the time invested preparing the volume). If you must install Tiger on multiple machines and would like to avoid the dangers of scuffing the disk or would like to decrease the wait time, this is also a viable option.

Lastly, and in my opinion most interestingly, this is a good method of making an install partition. Once you get the system to boot off the iPod (or external hard drive), if you have made a disk image of your install DVD you can easily use Apple's disk tools to format a small 3 gig-or-so partition and restore it with the install DVD's image. This way if in the future you need to do a fresh Tiger install, you can simply boot off of this partition and zap, new system in no time.

Alright... that's it. :) Hope this wasn't too confusing or too obvious. Happy Tiger'ing.



Hi everybody!!
Wanted to ask you guys a small query i had regarding your post. i have a mac (say A) without the dvd drive and a mac with a dvd drive (say B). i was planning the following:

1. create a image of the installation DVD in A
2. Create a small 3 GB partition in B.
3. restore this 3 GB partition with the install image from A over the network using AFP.

is this a viable option to install the OS. Am pretty new to macs, so am nt sure if this will work.

[igotworms]

I'm topping this sucker. Believe it.

I've got an old G3 powerbook (lombard, no dvd) that's desperate for Tiger. Because it's running OS 9, the ipod trick doesn't seem like it will work out.

A question: if I created an image on an OSX machine, edited that image's OSInstall.dist file like so (http://jonsharp.net/archives/2005/05/06/installing-tiger-on-lombard/), is there a tool out there that will split that image for me so I can burn to cd?

Seems like the best way to get Tiger on an OS 9 unsupported machine.

[igotworms]

Yes, yes there is. Nevermind.

[munckee]

I'm trying to update my B/W G3 tower to tiger from 10.2, but I can't get it to boot into target disc mode. Any ideas?

I have a powerbook that I can read the dvd from. I tried booting the PB in target disc mode and installing with the G3, but that wouldn't work either (whenever I'd restart it would jump straight into OSX instead of starting the install process).

Can I jump straight from 10.2 to 10.4? I just (like this morning) sent my panther discs back to texas with my mom (along with my old ibook) :rolleyes:

EDIT: Some further reading indicates that I can't start my G3 in target disc mode. I managed to get a disc image of the install DVD on the boot drive of the G3. I can mount the image and start the install process, but when prompted to restart, the computer just starts back into OSX instead of restarting into the install process. Any help :confused:

[Eric Lewis]

Hello

I recently moved and i bought mac os x tiger at the apple store on DVD and then i quickly moved it to my mac (eMac before i moved..) i put the whole cd in a .dmg file...some of my stuff got lost including my tiger dvd(and i wont have acess to it for like 3 weeks) so i just have a copy of the dvd in .dmg format. I have a cd-dvd drive on a eMac with 10.2. Is there a way to install it with an ipod? i have a 80gb ipod...i was trying to open the dmg file and drag it to my ipod but it kept giving me errors...is there a way? how whould i do this? i really need tiger for my project.. to install some apps......thanks ahead of time

[afd]

tried to something similar with a firewire drive and tiger install a while ago. I had no success because the ext drive wouldn't boot. Starting up with the option key held down the ext drive didn't appear and using startup disc to select the ext drive didn't work either. I had used carbon copy to make a duplicate on my iMac's internal drive. The drive enclosure was a generic case I bought on eBay.
Anyone else had a firewire drive that wouldn't boot?

[iWizzard]

Will this method work to upgrade from tiger to Leopard?