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No, it's connected through FireWire. I'm thinking that maybe because it's a fairly old DVD drive, it's only compatible with OS 9?

No, it's through FireWire, not a USB port. But it's a pretty old DVD drive which I've hardly ever used. Maybe its software is OS 9 compatible but not OS X? I don't have the original software for the DVD drive. Maybe I just need to borrow a newer DVD drive and try that?

No, it's the black retail Tiger disk. Nobody pirates software, do they???

Got an iMac without an internal DVD drive. It has OS 9 and OS 10.3.9 and I'm trying to update to OS 10.4 with a DVD, using the external drive. It recoginzes the DVD in OS X, but when I hit restart to boot up from the install disk, the computer boots up in OS 9. I can't even manually select it to...

We have an iMac (with OS 9 and 10.3.9) which doesn't have an internal DVD drive. I'm trying to update to 10.4 using an external DVD drive. But when I restart the comp to boot up from the 10.4 DVD, it boots up in OS 9. I cannot select the external DVD as the startup disk at all. Any help would be...