Q: Remote Tiger install?

You seem to be the authority on this subject. I have a "universal" Tiger install CD set, not model-specific. I used it to install Tiger on my PowerBook Pismo (aka "FireWire").

I FireWired my Pismo (working optical drive) to my PowerMac Digital Audio (erratic optical drive). I put the Tiger install CD #1 into the Pismo and booted it into target mode. Then I booted the PowerMac into startup-manager (Option key down). The PowerMac sees its own hard drive and the Pismo's hard drive, but not the Tiger install disc #1 in the Pismo's optical drive. I can even boot the PowerMac from the Pismo's hard drive, and see the Pismo's desktop.

How do I get the PowerMac in startup-manager mode to see the Tiger install CD #1 in the target-mode Pismo's optical drive? Many thanks.

My Pismo (good optical drive) boots up just fine in FireWire target mode. My PowerMac Digital Audio (bad optical drive) boots up just fine into startup-manager mode (Option key down). But the PowerMac in startup-manager mode only sees the hard drive on my Pismo in target mode. It doesn't see the Tiger install CD #1 in the target Pismo's optical drive as a boot source.

In your DOC-1020, the fourth install method didn't specify identical machines, and it seemed to indicate that the target's optical drive would be visible in the host's startup manager.

But a note in HT1661 says that target mode "will not connect" to an ATAPI drive. My Pismo's optical drive is ATAPI.

So it looks like the PowerMac's startup manager will never see the optical drive in the target Pismo. Is that correct? Or is there something I'm missing? Or another method?