Difference "genuine Mac install"/and Boot 132 install?

[MiniHack]

Hi,

I am writing this from my Macbook running 10.5.6. I am about to start building a Mini ITX based hack and have a couple of questions.

As I understand it, the original Boot 132 method allows the use of a genuine Leopard Retail DVD to install OSX to the hack hard drive after partitioning the drive (with Disk Utility) to GUID. It then allows you to boot that drive by acting as bootloader. Afterwards, if you want you can then use Chameleon etc. to get rid of the need for the Boot 132 CD. I used this method last year on a Shuttle PC (now gone).

My retail Leopard DVD is 10.5.0. The board I am going to be using for the new Hack is a Zotac 9300 board with a C2D processor and is basically vanilla with a couple of modded kexts needed.

Can I short-circuit the whole process of retail install of 10.5.0 (which won't work anyway because of the lack of drivers in that release for the Nvidia 9300) and then Combo update etc. by (1) making up my Boot 132 CD (2) cloning my genuine 10.5.6 install to an external USB drive (3) modifying my cloned install by modifying the required kexts etc.and (4) swapping out my now modified drive into my new Hack and booting up the new hack with the 132 CD....

If the Boot 132 method essentially allows a genuine installation, then I see no reason why a cloned installation from my MacBook (and modified for the MOBO before pulling) should not work. Or am I missing something?

I welcome your comments please as if this method obviously wouldn't work then I won't waste my time.

Thanks.

 

EDIT: To answer my own question - yes, this works absolutely for Vanilla type installs.