kipod: Use your iPod to install Tiger.

Here is how you can install Tiger on your Mac if you don't have a DVD drive. This also works quite well if you work for an IT department etc. and need to quickly install Tiger on multiple computers. Installing from a external HD or iPod using Firewire is faster than using a DVD drive.

Take your Tiger installation DVD to a friend who has a Mac with a DVD drive and Panther or Tiger installed.

1. First plug in your iPod or external firewire HD, put in a Tiger DVD, and open Disk Utility.

2. Then click on one of the disk and then click on a tab called "Restore" (this tab doesn't exist in the Jaguar version, can be found on Macs ith Panther or Tiger).

3. Next a dialog box will come up. There will be two fields, one saying "Source:" and the other "Destination:" You need to drag the Tiger DVD into the "Source:" field and do likewise with the iPod/external HD and the "Destination:" field.

4. There should be a button in that dialog box labeled "Restore." You click that.

5. You will now need to attach the ipod/HD to your Mac's (the one you wish to install Tiger on) firewire port.

6. After the drive has mounted restart your mac and hold down the option key. It should bring you to a screen that allows you to choose what volume you wish to boot from select the volume for the external HD/iPod and click boot (it may take awhile to finish loading the options and the cursor may spin for a good deal of time but be patient).

If you followed all these steps the installer that will allow you to install Tiger should now load. The method I have described does work (I have used this process myself).

-Patrick