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Burn Tiger to CDs?
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The iMac I want to put it on doesn't have FW (333MHz iMac G3). I need a CD version. There's got to be a way to make an image of the DVD and then burn it to CDs. It seems to be that when the first CD runs out of space, it would eject the 1st CD and ask for a 2nd, then a 3rd, and so on.
I even went ahead, made an image of my DVD in Disk Utility, then converted the image to .cdr and it still won't burn to CDs. I would think converting it to .cdr would make it burnable on CDs. When I try to burn the image it gives an error saying the inserted media doesn't have enough space on it.
Someone will develop a shareware program that will do this. There HAS to be a way somehow.
Unfortunately, my external FW HD is biting the dust. I just got it 3 months ago too! 🙁 Its actually a external case that I bought and put my own hard drive in there. Its much cheaper doing it that way. If I could get that working I would put the HD out of the iMac G3 into it, and use my iMac G5 to install Tiger on the FW Drive.
I even went ahead, made an image of my DVD in Disk Utility, then converted the image to .cdr and it still won't burn to CDs. I would think converting it to .cdr would make it burnable on CDs. When I try to burn the image it gives an error saying the inserted media doesn't have enough space on it.
Someone will develop a shareware program that will do this. There HAS to be a way somehow.
Unfortunately, my external FW HD is biting the dust. I just got it 3 months ago too! 🙁 Its actually a external case that I bought and put my own hard drive in there. Its much cheaper doing it that way. If I could get that working I would put the HD out of the iMac G3 into it, and use my iMac G5 to install Tiger on the FW Drive.
TMA
macrumors 6502a
mklos said:
Built in Firewire is a basic requirement for Mac OS Tiger, sorry matey 🙁
I'm not sure why you think it's possible to burn a 2.5+ Gb file onto a media that will only hold 700mb ? 😱 It's not physically possible to fit the Tiger image onto a single CD. The Finder will not automatically split a file so that it fits on multiple discs. And if you could split the Tiger image, doing so would most like corrupt it. Even if you managed to get that far, the Tiger installer would go mental trying to find all the parts and probably crash.
TMA
macrumors 6502a
my guess is the installer for the CD version is a lot different. knowing where the packages are on each cd. as such you can have it on more than one media disc. the dvd installer expects all files on that one piece of media. sorry man. not gonna happen.