gt5000 Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 So I have already installed 10.4.3 on my Sony Vaio without a problem. I used 8f1111, and I patched it all up and it works flawlessly etc etc. But now I'm moving on to my older HP laptop. It only has a cd drive. I have already tried to partition a little of the HDD, and put the contents of the 8f1111 install dvd onto it and boot to that, but that didn't work. Has anyone done this or have any ideas? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6149-installing-wo-a-dvd-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 So I have already installed 10.4.3 on my Sony Vaio ... Has anyone done this or have any ideas? Thanks.Why not image it from Vaio to HP? Try something like Acronis True image and assuming enough HD space and partitions (with WinXP on both laptops to do the image copy and transfer), you shouldn't have much problem (HP should support SSE2 etc). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6149-installing-wo-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-38565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt5000 Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 I think you have somewhat of the right idea, but Acronis is only for Windows. Also would it set up correctly if it were still and image of that hard drive? I guess it would, but still, I need to find a way to make it, and restore it on my HP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6149-installing-wo-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-38585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 You could just swap the hard drives, install with the DVD then swap the drive back. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6149-installing-wo-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-38589 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 I think you have somewhat of the right idea, but Acronis is only for Windows. Also would it set up correctlyIf you search for similar threads in the forum, you would know that this has been done many times before, especially with these laptops having WinXP as the default OS. The OSX images are swappable if the hardware is supported. You just have to transfer the image by network, it doesn't take long at 100Mbps. The alternative is as suggested swapping drives, which you may or may not want to do depending on the laptops. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6149-installing-wo-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-38591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rblissitt Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Assuming you have XP running on one partition on the HP, just use VMWare and a patched DVD image that you transfer over to the laptop or access over the network. Use Daemon Tools to mount the image. Then you can do the install in a VM and then (hopefully) boot natively. I did that on my second PC which has no DVD drive. -kat Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6149-installing-wo-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-38734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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