Restore using disk utility located on external drive

[mogley]

I had a command written down that allowed you to run disk utility from and external drive to enable the drag and drop restore functionality on an OS X install DVD because if you have ever tried the restore function from the OS X DVD on an Intel Mac it will not let you drag and drop the destination, which is very annoying. Some how in the last week of cleaning I lost this sheet. Basically I found a site that told me to copy disk utility.app from my /application/utilities folder and my /usr or /usr/bin folder to my external hard drive and then type in a command under the terminal.app located on the install dvd that that launches this disk utility.app and allows me to restore by drapping and dropping.

 

the command looked something like this i think

 

/Volumes/(External Hard Drive Name)/Disk Utility.app -o "/Volumes/(External Hard Drive Name)/usr/bin"

 

I may have the Disk Utility.app and /usr/bin mixed up but it was something like that.

 

Has anyone ever come across this before?

[mogley]

I have been searching google for 2 hours now and I may have come up with a solution, I cannot try it till I get home but I was wondering if anyone could verify this.

 

/Volumes/(Name of External Hard Drive)/usr/bin open "/Volumes/(Name of External Hard Drive)/Disk Utility.app"

 

I think this works cause I copied the /usr/bin folder which contains a folder called open in that allows apps to run when call from the terminal on any external device.