Recently, I decided to startup an old Mac collection (New World Macs excluding the Intel range). So far, I've got an iMac G3 and a Power Mac G4 in my collection (and soon to get an iBook). They are both running Panther. Now I want to put Tiger on them. So I downloaded a torrent for Mac OS X Tiger CDs (since the DVD version was a bigger download and I'm stuck with dial-up for the rest of the month). About 3 days later, the download was complete and I took the DMG files, merged them all together into 1 DVD from 4 CDs in Disk Utility. I started the installation on my iMac G3. A few minutes later, the iMac G3 asked for disc 2 and spat out the DVD. I put the DVD back in to see if it would work. It didn't. I heard the CD drive whirring up and then it spat the DVD out again. I tried once more just to be safe, and then gave up and shut it down.

Is there a file somewhere on the DVD that I can edit to make it accept the DVD? I imagine it not to be hard since the only thing differentiating between each install disc were the disc labels (no disc identity files anywhere) so the installer must have these labels in a file somewhere.

Can anyone help me in this situation?

Mount the disk images with Toast 8.

In other words, if you NEED it to be on DVD, put all the disk images on the DVD in data format, then use Toast to mount each image. Your computer will think it's getting the CD mounted.

umm... how is he going to use toast to mount the images, when he is installing OSX? if that was possible then there would be a lost less CDS and DVDS used by us around here. What he should do is just burn them in CD format. It isn't worth the hassle to make it a dvd. 3CD's vs 1DVD, it might actually be cheaper for the CD's

i'm trying to do the opposite.

i have a blue/white g3 400 mghz, 768 mb with a cd drive. Normally i would just pull the hard drive and plop it into an imac with a dvd drive however the drives use different cables.

So, I am borrowing 10.2 installation cds from a friend, but I was wondering how / if i could just use Toast to burn a 10.4 retail DVD onto cds?

Or, once 10.2 is installed, i understand the g3 cannot go into target mode, so i can't go that route to install 10.4.

i only need to run 3 programs on the g3 and really wnt to keep it going.

does anyone know what the least amount of files that are needed to keep 10.4 running?

thanks.