![]() It’s only when they try to load a DVD such as the Mac OS X 10.4 install disk that they realize that it’s not working and they need me to explain to them that their machine is rather old and only has a CD drive, which cannot read DVDs. But of course I would definitely need to be able to use an external drive as a bootable device and somehow run the installation from there.īy default, Mac OS X 10.4 comes on a single DVD, and most people I provide tech support services to are unaware of the exact nature of the built-in drive in their machine. I suspected that this should be possible, even if not fully supported by Apple. This was an interesting challenge and I figured I should explore the issue further, knowing that Mac OS X is designed for network installations, etc. Then in the past couple of weeks I have had two different requests for help with the installation of Mac OS X 10.4 on computers without a DVD drive. (Occasionally, I also have to boot a machine in Target Disk mode and access it from another machine. ![]() ![]() I have certainly thought, on occasion, that it might have been convenient to have such a thing, but usually I am able to do all my work as long as I have the original system disks that came with the machine, and my DiskWarrior CD (a bootable disk) for hard disk problems. In all my years of providing Mac troubleshooting services to Mac OS X users, I have never once had to use an external hard drive as a bootable device.
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