#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 MAC OS X#
#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 INSTALL#
#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 UPDATE#
#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 PASSWORD#

I have also used an external USB DVD drive toВ attempt to install OS 9, and it booted fine holding down the C key. It only took a minute to get to the installer screen.ДЇrom then on, you install as normal. Keep in mind the USB port on the Clamshell is only USB 1.1, so speeds wonвЂ™t be amazingВ вЂ“В but to be honest, it was faster than I expected. Keep the C key pressedВ until you see the big grey Apple logo on the screen. For this to work for me, I had to ensure there was no disc in the CD drive of the Clamshell.

Once done, simply eject the USB stick and insert it in the USB port on your Clamshell. You can find instructions on Hacking the Tiger Installer for Unsupported G3 Macs. The Tiger installer cut out support for any G3 that doesnвЂ™t have FireWire, but this can easily be sorted by removing the badmachines line from OSinstall.dist file on the installer DVD. To install Tiger on early Clamshells, you will need to modify the installation DVD. Once done, both the DVD drive and the USB stick will open up and both will show the OSX installer files.

#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 PASSWORD#

It will ask for your user password and then sit back and wait. In my case using 8.06GB USB 2.0 SD MMC resulted in an error, I had to select Untitled. Note: Make sure you select the partition and not the drive itself for the destination. Then drag your USB stick from the left pane to the Destination field. The Source field will be filled in already.

#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 MAC OS X#

Open Disk Utility and click on the DVD labelled Mac OS X Install DVDВ on the left side. I used Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite to do this, but any version of Mac OS X from Tiger upwards should work.

Insert your Tiger DVD into another Mac running OS X and plug in your USB stick. More recently I have used a USB flash drive to install 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.10 Yosemite on my MacBook.ДЇollowing a similar method, I created a USB flash drive containing the Tiger installer. In the past I used a FireWireВ iPod to install Tiger and OS X 10.5 Leopard on G3 and G4 Macs. Installing Mac OS XВ 10.4В Tiger would be tricky, as it came onВ DVD unless you contacted Apple, and then they would swap it for a CD version вЂ“ but these are hard to come by now. It only had a CD-ROM drive, which meant I couldnвЂ™t use it for burning disks or reading a DVD. I just picked up a Clamshell iBook with a broken optical drive. But it seems some PowerPC Macs can boot from USB. Is there something I've missed? I do not have another mac to try Target mode.If you wanted an external drive for booting a PowerPC Mac, youВ officially needed a FireWireВ one. I then tried to boot off the DVD, and now the machine doesn't even spin the drive up. I reset the parameter ram (alt-command-p-r-power), waiting for three beeps. The Tiger DVD passed its verification, the installation appeared to proceed normally, the system rebooted at the end, and up came the gray screen.ДЄll subsequent boots only came up as far as the gray screen. Disk utility showed no permission or disk problems, and the profiler showed everything was there that was supposed to be there. I then booted of the Tiger DVD, ran Disk Utility, Hardware Profiler, and used terminal to do 'nvram boot-args='-v'.

#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 UPDATE#

This occurred after the latest security update trashed all logins on the machine (G4 iBook, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD, 10.4.9) Immediately after entering a user password, loginwindow would crash, followed by mdimport, followed by crashserver вљ I could briefly boot using command-S, but that stopped working (blue screen). All I get is a gray screen with the apple - no spinning bars. I'm trying to boot from my Tiger install DVD using the usual method - holding down 'C' while pressing the power key.

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