[entelechy]

After all the work rebuilding my system (long story in another post), it worked beautifully for a day and then crapped out.

As such, I'm taking the advice of those on this forum and doing an "archive and install" beginning with Jaguar discs up through Panther.

Potential problem, and perhaps the problem in the first place, is that my Powerbook G4/667 internal drive seems to be faltering or dying a slow death. I need to/will replace it soon, but would like to rebuild straight away as I can't get the system to even boot up, and still have work to do.

Can I use my wife's Powerbook G4 to help do the install using Target Disc Mode since her drive works perfectly? If so, how would one go about this?

Many thanks in advance,
~Chris

[TETENAL]

You can install OS X to a Mac in target disk mode.

If the optical drive of your PowerBook is not working correctly simply connect your Macs with a Firewire cable and boot your PowerBook while holding down the T key. Your wife's PowerBook will then recognize yours as an external hard disk and you can install OS X on it as usual as on any other disk.

[entelechy]

Thanks Tetenal

Just surfed around and found this is possible, but nice to hear it here. Currently my Mac won't boot up past the initial Apple (no circulating icon beneath it).

Thinking about trying to run disc warrior to see if it helps any before trying TDM tomorrow.

Thanks again for taking time to reply.

Cheers,
~Chris

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by entelechy:
As such, I'm taking the advice of those on this forum and doing an "archive and install" beginning with Jaguar discs up through Panther.

Why would you install Jaguar beforehand? Waste of time, effort, and a potential for problems if the disc is scratched or whatever.

Panther is a stand-alone install.

[entelechy]

I just have the upgrade discs from Panther, so I thought I need to start with Jaguar. With my faltering drive it took forever and a few tries to make it through the installations of both Jaguar & Panther when I rebuilt it, which might be why I ran into problems (?). Whether or not this is the case, I think I'd feel better redoing everything, just because it was such a nightmare trying to sort out what was going wrong last time.

I also just had to rebuild my boss' computer after he downloaded 10.3.6 and it completely locked him out of his computer. Again, we just had the Panther upgrade discs, so we had to start with Jaguar.

Have a happy Thanksgiving all,
~C