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Installing FCP 4 Without A DVD Drive?
i have a 800mhz powermac g4 quicksilver, and i’m trying to install FCP 4. it doesn’t have a DVD drive (the FCP 4 install disc is a DVD). i used my powerbook and target disc mode to install tiger on the powermac, and i’m wondering: can i do the same thing with FCP 4?
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i just tried, and it said FCP can only be installed on a startup drive. it is the startup drive, it’s just the startup drive of another computer. any way to get around that? perhaps a way to transfer the contents of the install DVD over to the non-dvd drive quicksilver?
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I’d look into an external DVD burner. A cheapie or a loaner?
Jerry
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put the tower drive into target mode conect it to your powerbook, restart the powerbook holding down the option key , choose the hard drive from your tower and boot from that,
Now your powerbook will be booted from your towers hard drive.
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A DVD burner can be an incredibly useful thing to have. Why not spend $30-50 on one and swap out the CD-ROM that’s in that machine now?
Arnie
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i actually used my PB to create a disk image from the install DVD, and dragged it over via firewire. worked like a charm. thanks!
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