Help installing mac OSX 10.4 on a totally wiped computer

[Jmevo]

I recently totally destroyed my desktop (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1321333/). However I purchased a firewire cable as instructed and successfully booted the destroyed mac in target disk-mode and wiped it clean. I have a firewire cable, a working mac laptop running the same OS and a mac 10.4.1 Tiger restore disc! How do I get mac OSX up and running on the clean desktop? Help is much appreciated

 

[jbarley]

I recently totally destroyed my desktop (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1321333/). However I purchased a firewire cable as instructed and successfully booted the destroyed mac in target disk-mode and wiped it clean. I have a firewire cable, a working mac laptop running the same OS and a mac 10.4.1 Tiger restore disc! How do I get mac OSX up and running on the clean desktop? Help is much appreciated

Download Carbon Copy and install it on the working laptop.
Connect the 2 systems via the FW cable, and start the destroyed computer in Target disk mode, (power up while pressing the 'T' key)
Now run Carbon Copy on the good computer and clone the system onto the Hard drive of the destroyed computer.
Reboot the problem computer and it should boot identical as your Laptop, same users and all settings etc.

 

[minifridge1138]

Download Carbon Copy and install it on the working laptop.
Connect the 2 systems via the FW cable, and start the destroyed computer in Target disk mode, (power up while pressing the 'T' key)
Now run Carbon Copy on the good computer and clone the system onto the Hard drive of the destroyed computer.
Reboot the problem computer and it should boot identical as your Laptop, same users and all settings etc.

What will work, but won't be a clean install.

Do as said about booting the wiped Mac into target disk mode.
Then put the install CD in the working laptop.
Boot the laptop.
Hold option as it boots, then select the install disk.
That should give you the mac installer.
Use disk utility to format the drive in the wiped mac (be careful that you don't format the drive in the laptop).
Then instal OS X into the recently formatted drive.

 

[jbarley]

What will work, but won't be a clean install

The OP did not ask for a solution involving a clean install.
They mention having a Tiger install disc, I'd be willing to bet it is from another computer, so I suggested a solution that would work.

 

[minifridge1138]

I was under the impression that the Tiger Install disk was the recovery disk for the laptop.
In that case, the plist on the disk would detect it was running on a supported laptop and would let him install on any hard drive it could find.
That would include the hard drive in the target desktop.

If the install disk is not for the Laptop, then it won't work without modifying the plist (surprisingly easy, it's just java-script).