[olug] A Mac Question

Fri Oct 6 20:55:50 UTC 2006

Can you boot the old machine in Target mode??  You could then install to that HD from your DVD on the new machine.  You would have to hook them up by firewire though to make this work...

Craig Wolf
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>>> reynacho at gmail.com 10/6/2006 >>>
YellowDog might work

On 10/6/06, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> We have a PowerMac G3 at work where the hard drive has
> gone bad.  We can't get a new hard drive to boot and
> have no idea where the OS disk for the machine is.  We
> do have a newer version of MAC OS X (10.4.6 on
> DVD)...The machine doesn't have a DVD drive just a CD
> drive.
>
> We have tried Ubuntu PowerPC but not sure if the disc
> image(ISO)that was burnt is correct or bootable.
>
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