I'll give it a go, thanks. On 21/08/2009, Marshall Scott <sc...@cvrti.utah.edu> wrote: > > Ben, > I'm not sure if this will work or not but here goes: > > 1. On the iMac, go to System Preferences and click on the Startup Disk > button. > 2. Press the "Boot in Target mode" button. > 3. The machine should restart. > 4. Connect the iBook and iMac with a Firewire cable. > 5 Boot the iBook. > > HTMS > > Marshall > > On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:13 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. >> >> > > > > > > >
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