timeshifter Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 In Brazilmac's thread he shows how to install using either by burned DVD or by putting that DVD image on an external USB hard drive. I've done it both ways in my efforts to get Leopard running on my XPS 410. Here are the comparisons of the two methods on my mahcine: USB hard drive: 40 seconds DVD: 6 minutes That's how long it takes to get to the graphical portion where you can pick the language you'd like to use. Oh yeah, and the install goes much faster too. Just wondering why this method doesn't seem very popular? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I agree 100% everyone should dump the dvds and just restore to a partition. its so much easier and faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiko Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 another agree here, though i'm not using a USB but another partition of my bootable disk, it's WAAAAAAY faster If I wasn't taking this approach, I won't be able to write this post in my AMD 10.5.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Wouldn't this mean you NEED to have another version of OS X (Tiger or Leo) running on a separate HDD too? I dunno about you guys, but I don't have 3 or 4 drives in my PC, internal or external... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenn0X Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 how do i prep a usb {censored} for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXon86 Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Don't forget not everyone can boot from usb, or usb 2.0 in that case. SATA DVDs work ok, mine went up in 2 minutes and 35 seconds:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeshifter Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 Don't forget not everyone can boot from usb, or usb 2.0 in that case.SATA DVDs work ok, mine went up in 2 minutes and 35 seconds:. Is it true that on a lot of systems, even though they support booting from USB (and otherwise operate as USB 2.0) that sometimes they're limited to USB 1.1. I would think that if your computer won't boot from USB then it's probably not modern enough to really enjoy making it a Mac. Another benefit of the hard drive boot method is that all the programs you might run pre-install like Terminal and Disk Utility load instantly with no lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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