yais Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Dear all, I have a notebook which can only boot from a CD. All MacOS releases I have found are dvds. I do own an extrernal USB DVD drive but the bios doesn't supports booting from it. How could I install MacOS on my PC? I there a CD release or a boot cd that could allow me to use the exrternal DVD drive? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
audit13 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 What notebook are you using? Does your laptop support ahci? If not, you may have to find the notebook's chipset in order to obtain the proper kext files for your hard drive controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/#findComment-1373173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0m30 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 How could I install MacOS on my PC? I there a CD release or a boot cd that could allow me to use the exrternal DVD drive? If you have a drive that you can dedicate to OSX and your PC will boot from a USB memory stick. You could do a retail install using this method. It needs a bootable USB stick of 500mb or greater and a retail Snow Leopard DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/#findComment-1373234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yais Posted January 1, 2010 Author Share Posted January 1, 2010 Thank you for the answers. My note book is the Toshiba A50-101. r0m30, I tried to use the guide for creating a bootable usb thumb drive but couldn't locate the "ldlinux.sys" file after executing the syslinux command. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/#findComment-1374101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
audit13 Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Your laptop uses an Intel 855 chipset. Unfortunately, you need at least a 945 chipset. You might want to try Tiger or Leopard instead. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/#findComment-1374108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yais Posted January 1, 2010 Author Share Posted January 1, 2010 Your laptop uses an Intel 855 chipset. Unfortunately, you need at least a 945 chipset. You might want to try Tiger or Leopard instead. thanks again for you prompt response. I will try any version that will work but the problem with the booting remains though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/#findComment-1374208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
audit13 Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 I think you're out of luck since you can't boot from an external dvd drive and all OSx86 releases are on dvd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/#findComment-1374216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0m30 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 r0m30, I tried to use the guide for creating a bootable usb thumb drive but couldn't locate the "ldlinux.sys" file after executing the syslinux command. This is on the pmagic USB drive? What OS did you use to create the pmagic USB drive? On windows the ldlinux.sys file is hidden you need to do a dir /AH E:\boot\syslinux to see it (change the drive letter to your USB stick). Also syslinux.exe doesn't seem to work properly if you put a \ on the target disk. You need to enter "syslinux -d \boot\syslinux -ma E:" not "syslinux -d \boot\syslinux -ma E:\" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204752-install-on-a-system-without-bootable-dvd/#findComment-1374995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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