I have a G4 mini with Tiger on it. I now have a spare license for leopard so want to upgrade it.
The internal DVD drive appears to be hosed, it spits out the leopard disc and any other DVD/disc I put in there.
Purely out of chance I decided to plug the HD-DVD drive from my xbox into the mini, and to be honest, I was surprised when the leopard disc appeared in the finder, no fiddling, no drivers, no downloads. It just worked
until I tried to boot off it, it appears to be non boot-able, despite being recognised by the OS.
So, how can I get leopard on this mini? Things I have at my disposal that may be useful
1 alu MBP, firewire 800 port
1 whitebook, fw 400 port
external hd-dvd drive
fw 400 cable
80gb fw 400/usb external hdd.
what are my options? can i boot off the dvd over the network from another mac like the air presumably has to? make a bootable image on the fw drive? target disc mode with the disc in on the whitebook?
The internal DVD drive appears to be hosed, it spits out the leopard disc and any other DVD/disc I put in there.
Purely out of chance I decided to plug the HD-DVD drive from my xbox into the mini, and to be honest, I was surprised when the leopard disc appeared in the finder, no fiddling, no drivers, no downloads. It just worked
until I tried to boot off it, it appears to be non boot-able, despite being recognised by the OS.
So, how can I get leopard on this mini? Things I have at my disposal that may be useful
1 alu MBP, firewire 800 port
1 whitebook, fw 400 port
external hd-dvd drive
fw 400 cable
80gb fw 400/usb external hdd.
what are my options? can i boot off the dvd over the network from another mac like the air presumably has to? make a bootable image on the fw drive? target disc mode with the disc in on the whitebook?
