On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Steven Nelson wrote:
First dumb question: Does your iMac have a DVD-ROM drive in it?No, that is the problem. It has a MATSHITA CR-173 CD-ROM drive. In other words, CDs only. Catch 22. ;-)
If you have a DVD equipped Mac you can use Firewire target mode to install Tiger on the iMac. It also works if you have machine-specific install media and want to install on an unsupported model.
FWIW, I use Tiger on my toilet seat iBook on a daily basis and actually get work done with it... I suspect having as much RAM as possible is more important than processor speed (that and realistic expectations ;-)
] SIMON D WILLIAMS