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Install Tiger Via Target Disk Mode

firewire logoSeveral people over at this Mac OS X Hint are reporting successfully installing Tiger to a Mac sans DVD drive by booting the Mac in Target disk mode (hold down the T button at boot up). Then they plug that Mac into another DVD-capable Mac via a Firewire cable. The original Mac shows up as a Firewire drive on the second computer and during installation they simply install to that firewire drive.

Although everyone in this thread reports this method working like a charm, in previous versions of OS X, I myself have experienced problems when trying to install from one type of computer to another. Once, I installed OS X on a G4 Power Mac in Target Disk Mode from my Powerbook, and I ended up with a non-working system on the Power Mac, because it mistakenly thought it was a Powerbook. Odd, but true, so consider yourself warned.
 
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