does anyone know any reason why this would not be possible? is it that the mac is trying to read off my internal drive (it is faulty) and not recognising the external as a bootable drive (with the disk in it)?
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Installing Os X From An External Drive
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holding down option during startup seems to recognise the tiger disk but when i click on the tiger install pane instead of my internal hard drive pane, my computer kernel panics. ive just upgraded my os to the new 10.4.7, and its not got past the white screen/grey apple since, im trying to re-install tiger from my external drive as my internal optical drive is faulty. any ideas?
im really scared my mac is ruined
im really scared my mac is ruined
g4 dual 867 mhz mirrored door mac. lacie d2 dvd writer extrernal drive acting as optical drive
can you also recommend a good optical drive for the g4 mdd? im thinking of getting the pioneer 111d dvd/r/rw its around £24 uk so that seems a good price.
can you also recommend a good optical drive for the g4 mdd? im thinking of getting the pioneer 111d dvd/r/rw its around £24 uk so that seems a good price.
thanks for the help everone, it was just a simple case of unplugging my external hard drive to stop it kernel panicking, then i could re-install tiger via original disks. again, if anyone is not sure about installing the new update, i would say dont bother. its caused me a lot of problems.......