bootable panther disk?

[ICN]

before I start, please forgive me if this has been asked before. i did a quick search, but didn't see what i needed, and now i have to get ready for work.

I have one of those old teal imacs (tray loader 233mhz), and had os x panther installed. I lost discs 1 & 3, so they're gone. out of the question. I could have survived, but now I want to install a larger HD, but i can't install panther without disk 1.

i "got" an iso (i do own it, so it would be legal, right?), burned it (on xp here) but the fool thing won't boot from the disk. am I missing something? any special instructions i should follow?

as before, please forgive me if this has been asked before. be gentle

[ICN]

bump???

somebody, please help me. somebody out there has to know something?

how do you burn an iso for mac on pc?

[macworks]

Probably need to burn the ISO file from a Mac. From Toast would be ideal.

Otherwise, you could pull the HD out of the iMac, hook up the old HD and the new HD via FireWire to a more modern mac, then use a cloning utility to clone the old HD's contents to the new HD. If the computer doing the clone is PPC, use Carbon Copy Cloner. If it's an Intel, I like SuperDuper, but it's not free -- cheap, but not free. They both work well.

Once you've cloned, put the new HD into the iMac, and you're done.

[finistere]

Dear ICN,
Since I'm not a techie, I'm afraid that much of what Macworks writes is beyond my capability or even understanding.
I have an older machine (flat-screen iMac G4 700 MHz), and when I wanted to upgrade to Panther, I went to NYC's Tekserve, where I learned that they don't sell superseded OS's (what did I know?).
The salesperson recommended that I procure the discs from someone on eBay or Craig's List. I used the latter and found & bought them for $20 and installed the OS, which to date runs rock-steadily.
Is this any help?
Tim