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JustinTD

Member Since 17 Nov 2005
Offline Last Active Jun 16 2012 08:28 PM
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In Topic: GUIDE: Creating USB installer; bootable backups and restoring them.

29 October 2008 - 07:32 AM

i had limited success with using MBR, for some reason chameleon didnt want to boot it, it would just hang...

I was forced to use my methods as a final resort earlier last week, and they worked perfectly. For some reason 10.5.5 doesn't want to agree with my system. So, I restored to my 10.5.4 backup and all was well.

Ultimately, I bought an iMac 2.4ghz C2D 24" 2GB RAM, 320GB HD from a lady at work; she just bought a new MacBook Pro (lucky), so, my playing with OSX86 will be limited now to VMWAre on my windows box.

In Topic: GUIDE: Creating USB installer; bootable backups and restoring them.

15 October 2008 - 11:20 AM

hi, very usefull guide!
I have some questions to ask you:

1- I have a small external usb drive (100GB partitioned half to store windows data, half for mac ones) and I would like to backup my working iDeneb 10.5.5 install: I have to follow point ONE of this guide or I may switch directly to point TWO installing then Chamelon?

2- point ONE is about creating a usb installing partition: I think it is always suggested due to the usb disk being faster than a dvd or there is no difference in terms of installation duration?

Thank you for your support and bye.


Part 1 is if you want to take the DVD you install from and make it a USB installer. It is faster to install on my system by quite a bit (roughly takes 1/2 the time)

Part 2 is for making the backup of your existing install.

In Topic: Complete Updates for Newbies and All -- Currently 10.5.5 Combo (Only Intel CPUs)

02 October 2008 - 03:34 PM

Mysticus, my apologies for what is likely a stupid question ... but ... what is the difference between the 9.5 vanilla kernel and the 9.4 stagexnu? The stigma around the vanilla (at least from a relatively new persons point of view) is that it can do updates direct from Apple Update while others cannot. Is this true in this case or can the stagexnu kernel do updates as well? Maybe if you explained the difference people wouldnt be so apt to use the vanilla one:)

BTW, the 1.1.3a updates of your worked flawlessly on my test partiiton except one error, startup item /library/startupitems/shutdownfix does not have the proper security settings. I just clicked "Fix" and it worked fine.

In Topic: NEEDED - Good Tutorial for all RE: Installing from USB Device

01 October 2008 - 11:59 AM

Hagar, thanks for that bit of information. Here's my ultimate goal: I have a 160GB USB External drive, I already can make 3 paritions for OSX installs on true macs (Leopard PPC, Leopard Intel, Snow Leopard Preview) ... but in addition, I would like to make 1 partition for Leo4All installs, 1 for a system back (IE, mirror image of primary partiiton with all software, bootable, so all I have to do is copy that partition back to the HD in the event i have to start over and not reinstall everything), and a final partition for storing applications (the later is not a necessity). How can I acheive this goal? With the chameleon thing i would assume i can get the Leo4All done, then I just need ot be able to restore the bootloader from the image of the disk onto the HD for backup purposes.

In Topic: NEEDED - Good Tutorial for all RE: Installing from USB Device

29 September 2008 - 01:51 AM

Anyone wanna chime in here?
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