From: scotty technoir (tick0001_at_algonquincollege.com)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 13:11:19 PDT
On 20-Oct-04, at 3:58 PM, Raj Patel wrote:
> Hi
>
>> i can hook up drives to it using USB but it can't boot from them.
>> is there any way to copy/clone Panther or trick open firmware into
>> starting from an external USB source?
>> is there a known way to solve the CD reading issue?
>
> I believe it should 'just work'
>
> Presumably these are original OS X cd's ?
>
> You could try something like carbon copy cloner to clone your eMac and
> then dump that image onto your iBook.
>
> Alternatively get a firewire cable and connect your eMac and iBook and
> use firewire disk mode
thanks but this ibook lacks firewire.
and yes i have a retail version of panther to install with. the ibook
will not read any discs including its own original disc image set that
came with it. CCC does not seem to work with OS 9 (?) and i think it
won't work without the CDrom working (??)
st
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