How To Make A Os X Tiger Usb Installer For A Powerpc Mac

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  1. Jul 22, 2017 Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Installation Sensation (on My First iMac). Install Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard via USB on PowerPC Macs - Duration: 15:35. LOLZpersonok 174,339 views.
  2. @Monomeeth I can't use the Panther install discs because they refuse to boot (even though I can read/rip them fine once in-OS), and my copy of Tiger is a DVD (the Mac has a CD-R drive, so I can't even read it, I had to rip the image using my iMac). (1) I have tried a 4GB Dane-Elec USB 2.0 disk, which I used to install Linux on my G3 no problem.
  3. OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar is very old and you'll have a hard time with many things, including Internet access using this OS X version. Most G4 PowerMacs can run OS X 10.4 Tiger. The problem, if you don't already own a retail copy of OS X 10.4 Tiger, finding this and purchasing this now is going to be very expensive.
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May 30, 2018 The ability to install, reinstall, or upgrade to Tiger remains important, but it is increasingly difficult. Mac OS X 10.4 install discs have been discontinued by Apple and are no longer sold at retail. Finding an installer requires buying a new or used copy from a reseller – or borrowing a copy from a friend, consultant, or other Mac user.

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0 - THANK YOU to all who came before on this hint/thread/comment... i am just standing on top of the giants before and adding my little comments for others...


1 - i could not make a windows-keyboard work... in particular, my imac (g5) would 'ask' about it when powering up by having me press the key 'just inside of shift key' on each side... thus, i was never able to make the keyboard-combo work correctly... if you cannot get into open-firmware, then try getting a normal MAC-keyboard...


2 - i was having all sorts of problems trying to get the correct device to use for the 'dir' command... i could see the tree of information, but could never make a working 'devalias' for myself... two clues:

  • a - if (when you type devalias xx yyy@yyyyyyyy) you receive a comment 'no alias' in response, then it did NOT work... you should see a 'good' response of just the word OK... even so, i was never able to 'use' my own devalias...
    • Tiger b - i noticed in one of the later-comments someone had tried just typing the word 'devalias' without anything else... when i typed that, i got a nice long list of predefined aliases... in particular, i could see one called 'first-boot' that looked like it should access my working tiger-hdd internally... also, if i just typed 'boot' it would do what youd expect [boot from the first-boot device, which is the current internal hdd]... Os x tiger download

    3 - i was finally able to get things working better by doing/trying the following (details removed for hopeful-clarity):

  • - and i finally saw something good... nb, i needed the exact-extra-characters listed [7 chars starting with / and ending with ] to get a 'good' dir... and i assume others will have the devalias of 'first-boot' predefined like i did...
  • - was the magic incantation i used for getting to my external-usb-key [8gb formatted/dmg-restored as needed]... in particular, the '1:3' here on usb0 and the '0:3' with first-boot matched the disk:partition information i got when i looked at the key using the regular get-info command from tigers disk-utility...
  • i could do a more-detailed 'dir' on the key until i got to the ...CoreServices directory level... i could NOT actually do a 'dir' on the BootX file itself... but the CoreServices directory showed the 'magic' tbxi flag on that BootX file that i expected to see...
    • i could use the 'UP-ARROW' to repeat the last command that id typed, so that i could just change the 'dir' to a 'boot' and add the BootX to the end and it would work... (using left- and right-arrows to leave the other good characters in place)

    4 - once i got my magic incantation correct, it took prolly an hour to get thru the first-boot - but eventually i got the great happy-mac sound from the other room... hopefully you will be able to too... :)


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    repeating: for me, the exact command i used was ... gl & hth, h.