Installing EP45 Board w/out SATA-DVD drive

[neyman]

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.

[Biøhazard]

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.

[neyman]

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?

[Biøhazard]

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).