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can someone please spell it out for me. i have burned 2 Dual Layer DVD's (of the same DVD) and neither one work the files are all there. it shows up when i hit the option key at startup....it pretends like it's going to load. and then i get the Non-Smoking symbol minus the cigarette. i have a MacBook Pro 2.0Ghz 2GB of RAM 100GB hard drive internal with 40GB free and an External 100GB FW drive.... please HELP!! i feel so stupid

 

 

not so stupid any more.... figured it out

 

if you have the disk image and an external hard drive take this path

1.open the DVD

2.System Folder

3.Installation

4.Packages

5.launch OSInstall.mpkg

6.and install (make sure you have your drive formatted properly as well

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I had exactly the same problem on my Macbook!

 

I copied the preview release .dmg file onto my Mac, used hdiutil to convert it to an ISO, and then copied the ISO back to my PC for burning on a DL DVD (Macbook cant do DL discs).

 

When I booted up with leopard preview release, I get the "no entry sign", which I believe is a kernel panic.

 

Besides booting off an external drive, has anyone had success with booting the DVD, and specifically on a Macbook?

 

 

loi.

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well what happened with the external is i would get the intro to OS X (the Welcome and account setup) i would finish the account setup, it would pretend it would start loading OS X...and then it would just keep reving up the drive and do nothing. so i gave up on the external after about 3 installs.

 

i have now done an install on my internal using boot camp to create the partition. same method as with the external. with the same results... anyone?

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macxpnux,

 

I am currently running 10.4.7 on my Macbook. So I converted the leopard .dmg into an .iso using hdiutil, and then copied it back to my pc, having connected the macbook to my local LAN. I created a network share on my windows box and copied it into there. I then burnt the .iso using Nero on DL blank media.

 

Still, it didnt work :censored2:

 

 

loi.

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I tried it another way that I haven't seen mentioned in these threads anywhere,

so maybe it's extremely stupid, but I can't find a prolem with it,

apart from not working when trying to actally install... ;-)

 

That's what I did:

 

- mount the dmg in the finder

- drag + drop the mounted volume on Toast to burn "as is"

- remove xcode tools from the toast file list to reduce file size

- burn on a single layer DVD, yay !!

 

Clever, huh...? Or not...? And if so, why not...?

 

The resulting DVD mounts like a regular installation disc, and also shows up as a

bootable startup volume in system preferences, but when trying to install or boot

from this disc, my Mac just boots up in normal Tiger mode...!!

 

Also, when holding the alt key at startup, the DVD does not show up, although it

shows up in the startup volume preferences ?!?

 

Installing from the mounted dmg also didn't work, the farthest I got was the grey

"no smoking" symbol... (I have a free 40 GB HFS+ partition on PPC Dual G5)

 

What am I doing wrong...???

 

Heeeeeeeeeeeeelp Pleeeeeease !

 

Thanks in advance...

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I unstuffed the files using an RAR unstuffer.  Then I opened Disk Utility (Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility).  Drag the dmg file to the left side of Disk Utility.  From the Menu Bar pull down "Convert".  Convert the dmg to a DVD/CD Master.  It will add "cdr" to the end.  Once it is a cdr, you can burn it using the yellow burn button in the upper left hand corner of Disk Utility.  Note:  The file size is slightly bigger than will fit on a single sided DVD.  I had to use a Dual-Layer.  It worked.  Double click on your nex installer disk.  Your mac restarts and installs Leopard.

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I unstuffed the files using an RAR unstuffer.  Then I opened Disk Utility (Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility).  Drag the dmg file to the left side of Disk Utility.  From the Menu Bar pull down "Convert".  Convert the dmg to a DVD/CD Master.  It will add "cdr" to the end.  Once it is a cdr, you can burn it using the yellow burn button in the upper left hand corner of Disk Utility.  Note:  The file size is slightly bigger than will fit on a single sided DVD.  I had to use a Dual-Layer.  It worked.  Double click on your nex installer disk.  Your mac restarts and installs Leopard.

I can confirm this works!

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