Use DVD drive of Imac for Powerbook through firewire

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Use DVD drive of Imac for Powerbook through firewire

I have a Powerbook with an inoperative DVD drive. I would like to use the drive from my imac through firewire to install Leopard on the Powerbook. How is this done?
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Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Sep 23, 2010 11:16 AM

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Niel

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Sep 23, 2010 11:36 AM in response to 320flyr

Connect them with a FireWire cable and start up one machine with the T key held down. Consider the following when choosing which computer to start up into FireWire Target Disk mode:

1. Some older Macs don't allow access to the optical drive when put in this mode.
2. An installation initiated from an Intel Mac will refuse to install on a PowerPC Mac.
3. An installation using a computer's original disks will only work if initiated from and installed onto the Mac the disks were designed for.

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