szemettelep Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Hi! I have a couple of Amd systems but my only Intel sse3 pc is an optiplex 745 ultra small form factor with no dvd room. Is there any way to transfer the iAtkos iso to an external hard drive and install from there or just install somehow without the dvd room. I have tried this from my Tiger Amd install but i always get a read error. http://gwhiz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/inst...opard-from-dmg/ Thank You! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 My suggestion would be to burn the DVD onto an external HDD that you can connect to that Intel computer. I know that you can do that from OS X's Disk Utility, but I don't know how you'd go around doing the same thing on Windows XP or Vista. Anyway, once you get that done, you'd have to be able to boot from the external HDD, and if it has the DVD burned onto it, you'd be able to use it just as if it was a normal DVD. In theory anyways. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Yes you use disk utility to restore the image onto the USB HD, but you need an OSX install to work from or some OSX system. Once you have restored the image onto the partition. Then you need to mark it active. Go to fdisk in terminal and type the following fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX (where X in the USB drive you restored the image to, then from there hit enter) update (enter again) f X (where X is the partition you restored the DVD image to, most likely 1) w (enter) It will ask you to restart possibly. Hit Y then enter q (enter) Then reboot and boot from that USB HD and you should be able to install from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szemettelep Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 Thanks for the quick replies ! I have a working Tiger install, I was messing with disk utility all day yesterday, but each time I'm trying to restore the image I get a read error message a few minutes in. Is there a windows application that would extract a bootable image to an external hard drive? Thank You! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szemettelep Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 Thanks again! I finally was able to restore the image to my external drive using disk utility then I set it active with acronis disk director, and i was able to boot from it. Before i was getting read errors when I tried to restore the image. I decided to move the image from my desktop to an other internal drive and restore from there and it worked. I'm installing iATKOS from my external drive right now. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish909 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 szemettelep, that external HDD you used as a replacement for the iatkos DVD, what was the format type? (FAT32 or..?), and did that HDD had other data in it except the restored iatkos image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish909 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 No one knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szemettelep Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Yes it was formated as fat32, but I had to partition in disk utility to restore the iAtkos image to it then i made it bootable with acronis disk director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish909 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 OK done that, now i'm trying to boot the USB hard drive as set from the BIOS, but it gives a "invalid boot media" message. What is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raysmd Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 anyone do this successfully with iATKOS 2.0i? I partitioned my external USB HDD with disk utility with GUID format. RESTORED the iATKOS 2.0i.iso to the ext. hdd. BUT, it doesn't boot. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepgup Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 anyone do this successfully with iATKOS 2.0i? I partitioned my external USB HDD with disk utility with GUID format. RESTORED the iATKOS 2.0i.iso to the ext. hdd. BUT, it doesn't boot. any ideas? I think you need to install a boot loader on the drive use chameloen no ideo how to do that using windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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