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Installing Mac OS X Tiger using an external USB HD instead of DVD-RW...

Asked by Vasili H.

Hello,

I have an iMac G4 800 Mhz 17-inch PowerPC. I am currently running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on it. I am very unfamiliar with Ubuntu and the Linux platform. I have a .iso image file of Mac OS X Tiger that I would like to install, but the dvd-rw is not recognizing my blank dvd-rw for some reason. Sometimes it even ejects it by itself after I put the disk in. I struggled with that all day thinking maybe I am missing a driver or something. I decided maybe I can boot from my USB 500 GB external HD to install Mac OS X instead of booting from the DVD-ROM, but I don't know how to go about this. Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

P.S. I am not looking to partition the internal hard drive to run both OS's. I just need Mac OS X installed and Ubuntu erased.

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Rolando Blanco (rolando) said : 		#1

I think that this is not the better place to help you with that, maybe you can try in the MacOSX forums, but let me try to help you,

Boot your Mac with the MacOS DVD placed in the unit, when turn up, press the "C" Key, then the Mac will know that you are trying to boot from the CD/DVD

I hope that this can help you,

Cheers!

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Vasili H. (zeus72385-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Thanks for your input Ronaldo, however, I am not installing Mac OS with a retail DVD. I have a downloaded .iso image of Mac OS X that i need to burn on DVD on Ubuntu. But for some reason, Ubuntu is not recognizing the blank DVD-RW when I insert it. It just keeps giving me a message saying "please insert disk", while the disk is inserted. Is there any way I can get the CD-RW/DVD-RW working?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

I feel this will be deleted as it relates to illegal activity. Downloading copyrighted OS CD ISO's is a breach of copyright.

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Vasili H. (zeus72385-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Wow, this was a lot of help. Btw, isnt ubuntu free? thats what i thought...and steve jobs and bill gates have made enough money. Plus im poor and mac os X Tiger is not the latest OS and apple doesnt sell it anymore, its out dated. So people should stop acting like you have never downloaded any music or anything for that matter in your lives because i guarantee 99.9% of you on this forum have. Im not looking for hypocrites to criticize me, my business is my business. I just asked how i can get my damn dvd-rw/cd-w to work with this crap operating system Ubuntu. Minimal mass used popular software is available for Ubuntu and Linux, and its just a headache to use. It wont last. Mac OS is much better .

thanks for nothing guys...

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Vasili H. (zeus72385-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Have fun "Crap-buntu"....

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Yes Ubuntu is free. MacOS isn't. Downloading it is an illegal act.