Jeff Chen Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Hey guys, I just D/Led a 9A466 DMG and wondered how I could enjoy it. Later on my Macbook, I used the diskutil to restore the DMG to a USB HDD (A 3.5" HDD hooked up to my Macbook via SATA-USB converter, cheap and handy device). After done, I restarted the mac and held the Option key. It brought up the bootable device list and my USB HDD was listed there. Then, the setup program worked fine. I erased my 10G WinXP volumn on my mac to fit Leopard (unchecked Printer drivers and X11 etc). When setup was done, I restarted my mac and held Option, to choose the partition with the newly installed Leopard - and it worked. Everything worked fine. Later I had some fun moving the installed Leopard to my USB HDD and it still worked. I erased the whole HDD into one huge HFS partition, restored the 10G volume of Leopard to the USB HDD, and tried booting from it - it still worked, and amazingly it worked very smoothly as a local drive. To delete the 10G Leopard volumn, I had to first erase it to MS-DOS format, and then used Boot Camp to resize my Tiger volume to the max size - if you don't erase to DOS first, Boot Camp will refuse to work. So guys, if you have 1 spare HDD, maybe it's just a lot easier to make it work - and you can even carry it to your friends' home to show it off Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
turpentine Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I think everyone knew about this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-396354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Chen Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 I think everyone knew about this. Sorry, just saw too many ppl asking around on "how to burn it" in different threads... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-396357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shimms Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 You should remove that screenshot... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-396364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Chen Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 OK done, but they can't get to me cuz I'm not in the US Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-396382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 InsanelyMac is hosted in the US, and its our ass unfortunately. Imaging an install disc to an external drive is nothing new. I first installed Tiger on my PowerBook 12'' by restoring the image onto my 1st gen iPod Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-396399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Chen Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 InsanelyMac is hosted in the US, and its our ass unfortunately. Imaging an install disc to an external drive is nothing new. I first installed Tiger on my PowerBook 12'' by restoring the image onto my 1st gen iPod well, I saw like 10 ppl asking the same question "how can I burn it" I was like... why burn it... everyone should have known the external drive thingy... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-396591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martijn Wagena Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 how do i restore a dmg to my ext hdd.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-398952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eligos Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 how do i restore a dmg to my ext hdd.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-398980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 I cant get this method to work with my B&W G3 rev 1 (using an internal drive, on on channel 1 or channel 2, set as master, with OSinstall.mpkg patched) Any ideas? Verbose mode shows lots of references to USB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55420-no-need-to-burn-9a466-at-all/#findComment-399051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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