[SOLVED] Installing Os X 10.4 on an OSless Powerbook G4 17" 1.67Ghz???

[DeltaTaco]

So here's my dilemma. As recommended, I bought a CD for Os X 10.4 Tiger to install on this machine. It is like new and unused, so no issue there. But upon booting from the optical drive and going through Apple's EULA or Terms of Service or whatever fancy thing it's called, it tells me that it can't install because I have to have Os X 10.3 to install 10.4 (Keep in mind there is no OS on the laptop, so when you turn it on it shows a white screen with a blinking folder and question mark) The system also can't boot from USB (and I had one heck of a time trying to make an Os X boot drive anyways and never got anywhere) So I can't make a boot drive and do it that way.

My mind started trying to come up with solutions, and I think I have one but I need someone to verify it for me so I can be sure it would work.

So I'm sitting at my desk trying to brainstorm and BOOM! I had an idea. Pull the HDD from my other laptop, then pull the hard drive from the Mac and transplant it into my ASUS laptop, create a Windows 7 boot drive on my PC, and install Windows 7 on the Mac's drive. Now calm down little Tommy, I hear you crying out "But that Mac has a PowerPC CPU and can't run Windows 7!!!" and it doesn't have to. From there, I download the version of Os X that I want, install it on that drive, and get rid of the OS that that pesky little PowerPC can't handle. And, in theory, bangety boom, I've got myself an OS on the Mac (after putting the HDD back into it, of course)

However, things work much better in theory...

I whipped out my PowerPC headache machine, and prepared to pull our friendly OS-less HDD. And that's about as far as I got before having to consult the internet on how the durn thing comes apart. An hourish later I was done, and ready to get at the hard drive (a good 30-40 mins of this was just me trying to figure out how to put the key back on the keyboard...) when I hit my first major problem. The hard drive... WAS AN IDE DRIVE and of course, both my ASUS and my PC are just a wee bit higher class than that (and by that I mean they would perform circles around this old laptop... If the thing worked) So here is my final question that I'd like you to answer. I have a way to get ahold of an IDE using PC to hook this drive up to, but would my aforementioned Windows to Os X to Mac laptop plan actually work or is it a waste of time?

 

[Alabalcho]

Even if your stunt worked half-way, you won't be able to boot OS/X on anything else but Mac. And then, your OS/X disk is for PowerPC only (you said you were able to boot off it), and you cannot boot that on your Asus.

If I was you - I would go to nearest Apple center, and say, "Hugh??".

 

[McHenryB]

It sounds as if you bought an upgrade disk rather than a full, retail OS X 10.4 disk. Return it to the seller and ask for a full version of the OS, not an upgrade. Make sure that the disk you get is either a full retail copy or one intended for your specific computer; other disks won't work.

Forget trying to use a PC to install OS X. For many obvious reasons this just can't be done.