lorkp Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 I've got a e6300 with the gigabyte ds3 965 chipset motherboard. I've read that I can't install with my ROM drive anything until I get an SATA IDE adapter. However, I was wondering if I could use my iPod to load the image. I haven't seen this mentioned, but seems like a good idea to me! How would I do this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29883-use-ipod-instead-of-dvd-to-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
np101137 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 you can, I think. I did it with a usb external HD. What I did: 1. Formated external (or iPod) in disk utiliity 2. Restored my Leopard Image to my external (or iPod) using Disk Utility 3. Ejected my external (or iPod) 4. Turned off my Mac 5. Plugged in my External (or iPod) to real mac 6.Turned on mac while holding option 7. Boot device chooser comes up 8. Selected my external (or iPod) 9. Booted to the DVD 10. Installed Leopard 11. When it restarts itself, set up your computer. 12. Unplug the external (or iPod) That should work, if your iPod has ebough space...... Well, tell me any errors or problems that arise... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29883-use-ipod-instead-of-dvd-to-install/#findComment-206466 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mMiniImManN Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Well, in theory, if you have a mac, you should be able to use Toast to do a volume copy of the DVD install disk to your ipod or other external device.. if it boots is another story, that would be very interesting, I was thinking of doing this to a hard drive then loading the installer but from the HDD instead of the dvd, doubt it'd work in my case though (due to the JMicron ide controller) If you don't have a mac, then I think you might try using IsoBuster to extract the mac files to your ipod, make sure your ipod is HFS+ (might need MacDrive 6 to work with this in windows).. that, or maybe a FAT32 partition would do? (I'm still wondering if this would work). But as far as getting the other boot sector info to your ipod, no clue yet. Good luck, let us know how you do it if you do Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29883-use-ipod-instead-of-dvd-to-install/#findComment-206517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorkp Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 I've actually installed OS X from an iPod onto a mac before, but this time, I wanted to use the iPod to install OS X onto a PC. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29883-use-ipod-instead-of-dvd-to-install/#findComment-206551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 I guess if you could get the mac OS X86 ISO and then use a program to burn it as a ISO to your iPod then that could work, maybe there is a program that can treat your iPod as a USB device, or trick it into thinking it's a DVD burner. http://guides.macrumors.com/Installing_Mac...0.4_without_DVD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29883-use-ipod-instead-of-dvd-to-install/#findComment-206825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mMiniImManN Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 I guess if you could get the mac OS X86 ISO and then use a program to burn it as a ISO to your iPod then that could work, maybe there is a program that can treat your iPod as a USB device, or trick it into thinking it's a DVD burner. http://guides.macrumors.com/Installing_Mac...0.4_without_DVD Well, that would be nice, Toast would allow this I'm prety sure, but I haven't come across a program that would "burn" to a hard drive yet Ah, that guide is prety cool, uses the disk utlity instead... But, I don't think that would work even with a Mac, has anybody gotten the patched DVD to not auto-eject from a real mac? Both my 10.4.6 and 10.4.7 seem to be rejected without warning from my ol' iMac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29883-use-ipod-instead-of-dvd-to-install/#findComment-206858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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