[Alex00087]

Just a quick question.

My dad just got a Mac mini, and I was wondering if I could use the mini 10.4 tiger install disks to upgrade my powerbook G4 to Tiger. Just wondering if it was worth the drive over to my dads house haha.

thanks
alex

[MaxPower2k3]

you can't boot the powerbook off of those discs and install directly (it will say the hardware is unsupported).

however, you can connect the powerbook to the mac mini via firewire, boot the mini from the install discs, boot the powerbook in target disc mode (holding down T while you turn it on) and then install onto the PB's hard drive from the mini.

After the first part of the installation, the computer will restart and the mini will actually boot from the PB's hard drive, so it may at first appear that you've reformatted/installed on the mini's internal drive by mistake. however, once you reboot again, it will start from the internal drive and all will be well. I recently did this with iMac discs onto a PowerBook.

[Maflynn]

Well technically that's software piracy and you really should buy a copy of tiger yourself.

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