Help Installing Tiger from eMac Install DVD - how to "exttract" install?

[sirlou]

Hi there. I am desperately in need of some tech help here. Thanks in advance. I am trying ot install Tiger from the eMac OS X Install DVDs that contain OS X Tiger. I have been trying to use them to install to my G4 Cube, but to no avail. The guy I biought them from said I should be able to install from them.

However, he has also said now that I need to "extract" the installs from the Tiger DVD and burn a new DVD, but I don't know how. I tried restoring them to a FW HDD and installing from there and got an error during install that said it "cannot install to this computer" . I tried a trick I read about restoring the DVD to an iPod and tried to install from that (I FW HDD mode) and I got the same error.

I poked around on the install DVD in Terminal, but that was no help. I looked at the install with Pacifist and that was interesting but I was not sure where to go from there.

Any help would be appreciated. If I was stupid and was swindled just let me know this is not possible and I will go and get another coopy of Tiger adn chock it up to experience.

My config: G4 Cube 500Mhz, NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5200 vid card, 1.12gb Ram, 120 WD IDE HDD, OS X 10.3.9 and 9.2.2 installed.

sirlou

[sirstaunch]

Well my Tiger install DVD particularily says, eMacs

As does my Mothers MacMini Tiger install DVD, says MacMini

There maybe ways around it, who knows?

[sirlou]

Yeah, this one says just "eMac" then below that "Mac OS X Install Disc 1"

Any help definitely apprecaited!

[bobw]

You need to buy a copy of Tiger for your Cube. The disks are machine specific.