bootable panther disk?

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before I start, please forgive me if this has been asked before. i did a quick search, but didn't see what i needed, and now i have to get ready for work.

I have one of those old teal imacs (tray loader 233mhz), and had os x panther installed. I lost discs 1 & 3, so they're gone. out of the question. I could have survived, but now I want to install a larger HD, but i can't install panther without disk 1.

i "got" an iso (i do own it, so it would be legal, right?), burned it (on xp here) but the fool thing won't boot from the disk. am I missing something? any special instructions i should follow?

as before, please forgive me if this has been asked before. be gentle
 
bump???

somebody, please help me. somebody out there has to know something?

how do you burn an iso for mac on pc?
 
Probably need to burn the ISO file from a Mac. From Toast would be ideal.

Otherwise, you could pull the HD out of the iMac, hook up the old HD and the new HD via FireWire to a more modern mac, then use a cloning utility to clone the old HD's contents to the new HD. If the computer doing the clone is PPC, use Carbon Copy Cloner. If it's an Intel, I like SuperDuper, but it's not free -- cheap, but not free. They both work well.

Once you've cloned, put the new HD into the iMac, and you're done.
 
Dear ICN,
Since I'm not a techie, I'm afraid that much of what Macworks writes is beyond my capability or even understanding.
I have an older machine (flat-screen iMac G4 700 MHz), and when I wanted to upgrade to Panther, I went to NYC's Tekserve, where I learned that they don't sell superseded OS's (what did I know?).
The salesperson recommended that I procure the discs from someone on eBay or Craig's List. I used the latter and found & bought them for $20 and installed the OS, which to date runs rock-steadily.
Is this any help?
Tim
 
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