The connection works fine, I can read/write iMac HD on MacBook Pro, but the installer can't start because it is supposed for PPC computers, while my MacBook Pro is Intel-based of course. So I thought that solution could be to take the iMac hard drive, connect it to my MacBook Pro (early 2011) as USB external drive and install Panther to it. And when I try to boot from CD directly (holding C) it comes to light gray screen with Apple logo and that circle of dashes thing and than freezes. I've checked the drive with Disk Utility and it's okay.

The install disks are perfectly read on iMac under 10.1, when I start the install under the current OS, it begins after restart, but after it comes to hard drive consistency check it seems to freeze - it shows only maybe one pixel progress on the progress bar (waited for approximately an hour or so, no change).

Now I want to upgrade the system to OS X 10.3 Panther (to try to use WiFi adapter which has only OS X 10.3 drivers), but there is some kind of a problem with the installation. I've replaced the PRAM battery (the clock doesn't reset on reboot) and firmware is up to date. I've upgraded its hard drive to 120GB one, made 2 partitions (one 7,77GB for the system) and successfully installed 10.1 OS. I have an old iMac G3 333 MHz, 192 MB RAM.

Black Panther instal the new for apple