neyman Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Hello, currently I'm running a Intel D975XBX2 (Bad Axe 2) with Leo4Allv3. (in order to boot I need to have the Leo4All disc in the drive ) Now I bought a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 and want to set up OSX properly. Unfortunately I don't have a SATA DVD drive, only a PATA/IDE drive. How do I install OSX86 with the EP45 mobo without a SATA DVD drive? I have a 8GB thumbdrive that may be used. Thanks a lot in advance! The current setup looks like this. Mobo: Bad Axe 2 CPU: Core2Duo 2.66GHz RAM: 2048MB DDR2 HDD: SATA 320GB DVD: PATA/IDE LG Swapping the BA2 for the EP45 won't work, as my current OSX install (Leo4All) does not start without its install DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166002-installing-ep45-board-wout-sata-dvd-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biøhazard Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 I have a perfect retail installation of mac os server 10.5 in the same motherboard from a pata drive and another of retail leopard installed from usb drive. Sorry about my english. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166002-installing-ep45-board-wout-sata-dvd-drive/#findComment-1153545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neyman Posted May 12, 2009 Author Share Posted May 12, 2009 I have a perfect retail installation of mac os server 10.5 in the same motherboard from a pata drive and another of retail leopard installed from usb drive. Sorry about my english. Thanks for your reply. So installing OSX from a PATA drive will work with this motherboard?! I thought OSX does not support the board's IDE controller...? How did you put your installation to the usb drive? edit: Did you use two usb drives (boot + retail) in order to boot the retail image off the other drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166002-installing-ep45-board-wout-sata-dvd-drive/#findComment-1153552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biøhazard Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Thanks for your reply.So installing OSX from a PATA drive will work with this motherboard?! I thought OSX does not support the board's IDE controller...? How did you put your installation to the usb drive? edit: Did you use two usb drives (boot + retail) in order to boot the retail image off the other drive? I used galaxy boot to boot both installations. And they are diferent installations one of leopard 10.5.6 (installed from usb driver) and another of macosx server (installed from a pionner pata writer). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166002-installing-ep45-board-wout-sata-dvd-drive/#findComment-1154062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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