


I take Disc 1 and put it in my iMac, turn it on, and hold the C key. The optical drive spins up, stays there for 10 seconds, then spits the disc out. In the background, the iMac is attempting to boot from the network, then the hard drive. It stops on the "boot from hard drive?" screen and stays there for 10 minutes.

I have a PowerMac G4 (AGP) with a working copy of Mac OS 9.2, and a corrupted copy of OS X 10.3. Typically it stays there for about a minute when I have my Tiger disc in. I would like to either reinstall Panther, or upgrade to Tiger. The catch is that for several reasons I am unable to use the CD drive to perform this installation, and am thusly relegated to using USB (I have no FireWire drives or other PPC Macs with. So I take my Disc 1 of Panther and put it in my Mac Mini to compare it to my. iso files.Ĭurrently my iMac is attempting to boot from the Tiger disc. Getting a blank DVD-R and copying the Tiger disc. This is free (thanks Grandpa for giving me optical discs). Putting my Panther disc in, not holding down C, and while it is trying to boot from the network/hard drive, put it back in after it spits it back out and see if it boots from that. Getting a real Leopard disc (10.5) and installing that. No, it's not minimum system requirements issues.
