Charbucks Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I'd like to install Leopard in a laptop without a DVD drive that is also unable to boot from USB. It can boot from CD or LAN. I tried the VMWare->Native method, but it wouldn't boot. My Windows MBR is broken and I can't get into the Windows recovery console to fix it, so I'm using grub from a separate partition to boot Windows. If I try to boot to the VMware partition by editing the grub list, I just go into an infinite loop of rebooting. Am I S.O.L? I need some way of booting from CD or network, or installation from Windows. I don't really care what happens to the Windows partition so if there's a method that wipes out the hard drive, that's fine too. I've also got a 20 Gig external hard drive, if that helps (although I can't boot off it). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
budman Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 if you can boot from a CD, download, burn and boot G-Parted (a small linux disk utility distribution) and fix your MBR http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-530248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charbucks Posted December 6, 2007 Author Share Posted December 6, 2007 Sorry, I don't think I explained it properly... my MBR itself isn't broken (grub is installed to it) I just can't use the Windows bootloader. I've got a linux liveCD that works just fine, which is what I used to create the partition for OSX. Are you suggesting that the VMWare method would work if I could get the Windows Bootloader to work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-530272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charbucks Posted December 6, 2007 Author Share Posted December 6, 2007 Okay, I can get it to boot after fixing the bootloader with ms-sys from the xubuntu live cd. However, I get the PAE error that everyone with a Banias Centrino seems to be getting. After trying to search through the forum, I haven't found anyone who has a solution to this problem. Does this mean that I should just give up now, or is there any possible way of installing Leopard on a laptop with neither PAE support nor a DVD reader? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-530550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Even if you don't have the PAE error, there is no Leo that boot on VMware yet. So the best choice for you is a Flat Image install, look at the Genius Bar. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-530564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
osx86 rocks Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 ok heres i installed leopard.i downloaded the leopard flat image.you will need to download Forensic Acquisition Utilities that is the program you will use to write the image to your hdd .in these files will be a program called dd.exe you will need to copy this along with the flat image and any other files that is in it. extract the flat image to the root of the c drive. ok now that you have those files to the root of your c drive.you will need to check what number your hdd is but since your using a laptop the physical drive will be 0.then open up command prompt and use this command.then you us this command dd if=c:\leopard-x86-flat.img of=\\.\0 but make sure you have all those files i listed copyed to the root of the c drive. will copying if you get the blue screen of death it is normal just reformt to xp then do this again and it will work. i had to do the same thing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-530570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charbucks Posted December 7, 2007 Author Share Posted December 7, 2007 Thanks for the help guys. I guess I should have read a little more carefully before trying all the VMware stuff. I was under the impression that the flat image is only for SSE3. Did yours work with only SSE2? One last thing I might try is installing to an external drive with a desktop, then dd'ing to the laptop... sound reasonable? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-530618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 The only thing that you need for SSE2 is the kernel, all the rest of files are exactly the same, so when you got transfered the flat Image with DD, you only need to copy the specific kernel, and it could be done with MacDrive or with VMware (but with Tiger that we alredy know it works). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-530757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charbucks Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 Okay, I need some help again... I copied the flat image over to my external drive, then used a linux live CD to dd the flat image over to my laptop drive. I then replaced the file mach_kernel on the Leopard install with version(s) from "9A466 and 9A499 AMD INTEL SSE 2 Kernels Patches and Decripts" - I tried both 9A466 and 9A499, but I couldn't seem to get either to work. I ran chown root:wheel (root:80 on linux), and chmod 755 on the kernel file. With the 9A499 kernel, I just got "loading darwin" and then the white screen + apple logo, and then it went black. With 9A466, I get kernel panic, and from the looks of it, it seems to be at least attempting to load an sse2 kernel. I took a picture of the initial screen, and then after a few seconds the text shown fades to black, with a message showing at the bottom that reads "BSD process name corresponding to current thread: unknown gs on stack". This message flickers and seems to alternate with "Attempting to... (something too fast to read)". After a few minutes doing this, it just reboots. Are there any files I should be replacing other than the mach_kernel file? Or perhaps I am not using the right kernel? Thanks for all your help. P.S. - I also tried installing ToH to my external drive using my desktop and then just dding the whole thing over to my laptop with the sse2 kernel already in the right place, but for some reason the installer couldn't detect my USB hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-534540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charbucks Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 I should also add that I tried hitting F8 to enter bootup options, but all I get is a system beep and the same screen shows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-534610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 wheel on Mac OS X is 0 If you are in an AMD you need to use -legacy at boot, try to add it somehow to the com.apple.Boot.plist as kernel flag. Without Legacy you can avoid kernel panics. Why are you dding an image that old, there are newer, and also permit you to use a hacked kernel that doesn't need the -legacy flag. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-534687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charbucks Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Oops, you're right, I'm not sure why I thought it was 80. However, it doesn't seem to make a difference. I don't have AMD, it's an Intel Centrino 1.1Ghz (Banias). As to the old image, that's the only "flat image" that I could find. I may have been following an old tutorial - I'll take another look. I also might try using a different computer to install ToH to my external drive and then DDing that. If that doesn't work, I might have to give up this dream. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-534733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 sorry I was confused when I read that you are using an AMD INTEL SSE2 Kernel patches and decrypts. On Intel you need to use dsmos.kext for vanilla kernel, but there is a hacked kernel also, AFAIK decrypts are needed for AMD only. EDIT: I remember that I used -legacy on my Intel laptop with the ToH DVD, so no hurt if you try this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75063-install-in-a-laptop-without-a-dvd-drive/#findComment-534745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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