[Todd Madson]

Hello.

My wife's older sister got an iPod Nano for Christmas. The salesdroid told
her she needs to be at 10.39 or later for it to work but upon connecting it
to her old 700 mhz "Snow iMac" running 10.3, she needs to be running
10.4 or later.

Problem: we could do that, I have a Tiger DVD I could install but her
machine only has a cd writer.

At one point, Apple had a version of Tiger on multiple compact discs
but I don't think that is available anymore and her machine certainly
can't run Leopard.

I have a DVD-ROM drive in my G4 400 but I'd have to pull it out of there
and put it into a powered case (I don't own one of those) to install it.

A waste to buy something to use once and only once.

Any other ideas? Did someone create a utility to allow it to be installed
on machines with only a CD burner drive?

[SVass]

Any laptop can be connected via firewire and run the older mac in target mode.
Any firewire external drive can have Tiger installed and then be connected to the other mac. Then said drive can either be reformatted or just used for backup. sam

[Sherman Homan]

Do the Firewire trick as SVass says. All you need to buy is a Firewire cable. But be sure that the Tiger DVD you have is the black retail version, not the gray OEM disk.

[Todd Madson]

I set my G5 into Target Disc mode and was able to install it from the
Tiger install DVD (not the OEM as indicated). No problems and it
worked fine.