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Thanks for the ideas and replies....I wonder if I create the dmg and store it on my FWHD, then boot to the FWHD and run the installer and have my target install be the internal HD??? Will that work?

Okay, this is what I am trying to do. You want to install Tiger, but you don't have a DVD reader on an older Apple machine. Instead of sending it off to Apple along with your DVD to get CD's to install, you want to copy the installer to an External FW HD (or create a .dmg of the DVD??) and run...

Does anyone know if this can be done? And if so, have you tried it?

Yeah, that sucks..... I wonder how i can spray this image onto my PowerMac that lives on my FW HD, does anyone have any ideas....?? need specific steps please....thanks

Well that still didn't work, i get a question mark in the folder that would be the target boot volume. My target boot volume (Lacie FW HD) works fine on my iMac running 10.3.x. I can boot to the external drive flawlessly I don't get it.....if there is a FW firmware update How can I find...

Thanks for the post, I will try the "T key" and see if it works, alternately maybe I do need the FW Firmware update.... I'll let you know what happens thanks again

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but, I am trying to boot to an external FW Drive from my PowerMac G3 (10.2.8/400MHz) and it doesn't see the external drive (Lacie 160GB FW). The goal is to restore an installed Panther OS from the external FW drive, it works on my...