guitaristz Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I am having a bear of a time upgrading to Leopard on my CoreDuo macbook. Newer DVDs that I borrowed wouldn't work and these awesome patched dvds aren't kickstarting the installer to spinup. Hitting "alt" shows a windows disk/dvd option. To compound things I have the older SL burner which seems unsketchy. Any ideas would be appreciated. I am happy to have a real mac now but, man installing Leo was a snap on my Dell which walked away and was thus replaced. Following are a few partitioned methods but can I add a couple partitions to this internal hard drive without losing everything such as my downloaded iso.s? I hope this is clear enough. Make 3 partitions (1: Media 2:Leopard 3:Leopard disk) So i restored the DMG to the 3th partition en rebooted my mac holding ALT. The 3th partition showed up as a installation disk and i entered the setup. Then i selected the second partition and installed leopard on that. Easy like that! Get CarbonCopyCloner (CCC) 1.) create a new dmg-Image with Disk Utility (DVD-size, writable) 2.) Open the Leopard-Dmg with CCC and choose the new empty image created with Disk Utility as Aim. 3.) remove XCode-Folder 4.) click clone. => you'll get a new DVD-sized image. don't forget to enable "bootable" in CCC-Prefs. To install from external HDD (part I) * On your external USB or Firewire HDD, create a 10GB Mac OS X Extended partition, format this partition and leave it blank. You will need this later on. * Download all 71 parts from ********** * Join with Ajoiner to get a single .DMG file * Mount the .DMG file * Using Disk Utility, Select the RESTORE Tab * Right Click on the "Mac OS X Install DVD" and select it as the SOURCE * Right Click on your USB/Firewire 10GB Partition and select it as DESTINAION * Check off "Erase Destination" * Click Restore * Wait for Restore to complete Once restore is complete, you will notice that your 10GB Partition name is called "Mac OS X Install DVD" * Unmount the Disk Image * LEAVE THE USB/FIREWIRE DRIVE CONNECTED * Restart your Mac and hold the Option Key to get the startup disk menu * Select the External HDD, Labelled "Mac OS X Install DVD" * Booting from the External HDD works and it's fast!! Anytime you want to install Snow Leopard on any Intel Mac Computer, all you need to do is bring your External Drive, connect it, reboot and install. Creating a bootable copy of the Leopard install DVD using the following method: 1. Open the Leopard installation DVD using Disk Utility. 2. Using the Disk Utility, create a new dual layer (8.5GB) sparse image called leopard (actual filename will be leopard.sparseimage) and mount it. 3. Restore the Leopard installation DVD to the mounted leopard.sparseimage (not the image file.) 4. Open the mounted leopard.sparseimage with Finder, and delete the XCodeTools directory. 5. Unmount the mounted leopard.sparseimage. 6. Using the Disk Utility, create a new single layer (4.4GB) spare image called boot (actual filename will be boot.sparseimage) and mount it. 7. Restore the leopard.sparseimage image file to the mounted boot.sparseimage (not the image file.) 8. Unmount the mounted boot.sparseimage. 9. Burn the boot.sparseimage to your single layer DVD media. Booting from this DVD works, but takes a long time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117395-iatkosleo4all-dvd-wont-boot-on-macbook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitaristz Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 bump Still grappling with this issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117395-iatkosleo4all-dvd-wont-boot-on-macbook/#findComment-836956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitaristz Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 One last surface... any wry comments to offer? Why wouldn't a patched DVD boot on a real macbook? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117395-iatkosleo4all-dvd-wont-boot-on-macbook/#findComment-851017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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