MacVertigo Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Ok.. So I have leopard. And I don't have a DL dvd burner, or a ipod. So how the he** do I install? I've tried to install from a firewire connected external HD. and it just resets my computer then nothing happens. So how are you installing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Here's what I did for a previous version. I attached a Fiirewire external hard disk, and used diskutility to parition it into 2 partitions, one partition was 10gig (I labeled this Install), and the second was the remainder of the drive (I labeled this Leopard). Make sure you check options and ensure that for Intel Macs it is set to GUID Partition Map, for PPC Mac set to Apple Partition Map. Then partition the drive and format to Mac OSX Extended (Journaled). Then restore the DMG to the 10gig partition, using diskutility. Boot from the 10gig partition (Install partition), by rebooting your machine while holding the Option key down. The Installer should start, install to the second (Leopard) partition that you created on the external hard drive. When finished, reboot, hold down the option key to boot from the second (Leopard) partition. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Or if you wanted to overwrite tiger anyway, just restore the image to the external firewire hard drive using disk utility, then reboot holding option, and boot from your firewire installing to your main HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacVertigo Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 f k it.. I just went and got a DL dvd burner. Its burning now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 f k it.. I just went and got a DL dvd burner. Its burning now. lol the hard way Heh, I have the DL Superdrive and a spare DVD-DL, but there's no way I'm going to use it when I can use my iPod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Yeah Dual layer dvd's are expensive... $15 CDN for a pack of 3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Yeah Dual layer dvd's are expensive... $15 CDN for a pack of 3... Here are sold at 4,50 euros (~8 dolars) each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacVertigo Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 I couldn't get it to read the disc once I burned it.. so I'm doing it this way: Okay step by step 1. Download the dmg (I'm going to call it leopard.dmg) 2. Plug in your external harddrive (I'm going to call it newdrive) 3. Open up Disk Utility 4. Click on newdrive 5. You'll see "First Aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, Restore 6. Click on restore 7. You'll see two fields Source: and Destination: 8. For Source: select leopard.dmg from wherever it is on your harddrive 9. For Destination: drag newdrive from the Disk Utility drive list 10. Click on restore (It might take a while if you're using USB... maybe a few hours, just let it go) 11. Leave this new harddrive with leopard attached to your computer 12. Open System Preferences 13. Click on Startup Disk 14. Select newdrive with the Leopard Install 15. Restart the computer 16. Leopard install begins 17. Install it where ever you want. When I installed it I wiped my main harddrive because I wanted to have nothing on it to interfere.... this is a beta after all. I backed up all my stuff and I'd suggest you do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_C Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I just installed it off my iPod. Worked like a charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffin7 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 what kind of iPod did you use?? i have a new video, but it's only USB, and that doesn't work. does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_C Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Yup, Intel Macs can boot from USB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bxsci(macuser) Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 can they boot from firewire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damasta Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 i used my ipod and yes intel macs can boot from firewire or usb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmed Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Will MacVertigo's method work for an iPod connected via USB? Regards Ahmed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoCryst Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 If and only if you have an Intel Mac. PPC users get no USB booting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCARECR0W Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I burned to D/L and it worksed great. You can buy D/L discs pretty cheap online... I got a 25 pack for like $40 Try http://www.supermediastore.com Thats where I get mine.. they work great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pakoto Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I understand that I could install leopard in my powermac g4 using a 2nd internal ide hdd and restore dmg into it ¿? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cn0901 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Since I have no external drives, I decided to burn the .dmg in a DL DVD. But, tried both on an iBook and a MacBook Pro, my dvd won't boot. I burnt the image with Toast but at boot my dvd simply isn't recognized, but then mounted correctly in finder as Tiger starts again. Someone has a clue, please?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Your disk image might have become corrupted. I've heard that if you mount it in OS X without locking it first, it is rendered unbootable. You can try putting the file back into your torrent downloads directory and repair it using the torrent. Your torrent app should double-check the existing content and download new bytes if deemed necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cn0901 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I doubt this: as I said, the images mounts correctly in Finder... plus, I did the trick and nothing was downloaded... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Your disk image might have become corrupted. I've heard that if you mount it in OS X without locking it first, it is rendered unbootable. You can try putting the file back into your torrent downloads directory and repair it using the torrent. Your torrent app should double-check the existing content and download new bytes if deemed necessary. That happens to .cdr which are read/write. .dmgs are read only so it doesn't apply to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grmbl Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Allright, this is what I did today: Full Leopard image (6 GB one from bay - look for "the new big cat" there :-) ). 1. DMG mounted, verified. 2. DMG restored to iPod Nano 8GB; 3. MacBook Pro (15.4" version 2.2, Core 2 Duo) booted from iPod; 4. Existing FAT32 (BootCamp) partition was used (to test Leopard) as target of installation; 5. System went stable after 3 reboots (Spotlight?); 6. Tested, worked well; 7. iPod boot, install Leopard to main JFS+ partition (re-formatting it); 8. Again 3 reboots; 9. Works like a charm! Currently preparing one more MacBook Pro and Mac Mini for an upgrade. P.S. Step 2 (DMG to iPod) took like 1.5 hours or so. Installer boot (USB) was taking around 1 minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwinn555 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 In the USA I paid $15.00 for a 10 pack of DL DVD disks . So with careful shopping it's possible to some up at a reasonable price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davorin Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Always gives me "ressource busy" when trying to restore Leopard dmg to my external FireWire harddrive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepjunkie Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Grmbl: I'm confused. You linked me to here because I wanted some help installing it. Did you install to your harddrive or the iPod? You lost me! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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