I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was written for the Intel chip set. Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote:
> > Hey all. > > I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its > internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have no > strange faults that would render the system unusable when it has a > harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to my emac > and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but i'm > getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. > > I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this before - > what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? > > Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger on it > but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. > > Thanks for reading, BEN. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
